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417. APPROPRIATIONS, Estimates and.—

I like your idea of kneading all Hamilton's
little scraps and fragments into one
batch, and adding to it a complementary sum,
which, while it forms it into a single mass
from which everything is to be paid, will enable
us, should a breach of appropriation ever
be charged on us, to prove that the sum appropriated,
and more, has been applied to its
specific object.—
To Albert Gallatin. Washington ed. iv, 428. Ford ed., viii, 140.
(W. 1802)