Book excerpt: Excerpt from Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, 1862, Vol. 2 The several reports which are herewith transmitted exhibit, in detail, the Operations in the several branches of the public service which are placed under the charge of this department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.