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B-9460 1 (1940-06-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadafo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 8-9460 Tune 119 1940. te Uonorable The Secretary of the Interior. Sir: a I have your letter of May 11, 1940 as followt our commuz atioa of April 23# 1940 (-9460) Is at hand, reUting to an it cotained in the Seond Deficibnc Act appreted May 2, 1939 (h4o We. 61, 7th Cngrees) provIding an additional sum for The Altsk Mailroad as folil '* inetuding $45,000 for replaceaezt of a warehouse destroyed by fire, $200,000 to 04- tjnue avilable until expended Upon further consideration of the letter fro* this Department to your office, dated April 3, 1940, relatia% to expenditure of rail- read funds in addition to the above mentioned au of $45,000 appro- priated, in the conptruction of a warehouse, I am doubtful that this letter contained a statement of conditios sufficient to afford the clear and complete view which it wa desired to brin4 to the notice of your office at that time. Tour attention is therefore now invited to the following review of oirouastances affocting the case. HIt io of course nll understood that in making necessary oz- penditures for Tin Alaska Railroad from time to tire, payments have besn made principally from funds derived from the Railrad's operations (such as freight, passenger and express services, Ste.), which Zinde have been appropriated yearly 'for every expenditure requisite for and incident tv the authorised work of the Alasks Railroad * to @on- thue available until expended.' 'Since the estimated revtnusa and other receipts of the Railroad have not been adequate to cover all necessary expenditures, the estimates. presnted annually to Gonjress for appropriations hare con- templated that the amount requested to be appropriated from the freasury, are avts required in excess of the revenues, ete., collected from time to time by the Railroad. In the case in question, due to heavy loss through the partial destruction of its main warehouse, located at Anohorage, Alaska, with nost of its contents, and the urgent need for immediate construction, of a building, and replenishment of the store of supplies, an estimate a

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