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Show Tho President of tho l'rcaa Claims Company has given his report to the acxklnldera which Is very gratifying. From which wo copy tlio following: "Tho actual amount of money derived from the cases that has o been adjudicated adjudicat-ed at tho present time In tll.ir77.8t or 11 vo per cent of tho vittlmilli.il value of tlio biiHlneea. Tho sum of about 15,000 la now in bank to the Coiupany'a credit, being ono-hidt ol tho total amount tamed hythocoinpanysincoSep 1,1803. Thcothcrhalf was paid to tho nxainincr lluicau of Claims In nccordanco with tlio terms of the contract between tho Company Com-pany and the Kxamlncr llurcnu of Chiiius. It must bo bom in mind that but n cry few of tlio Company's cases hato leen allowed and Beltltd, that no .tnnlmneiit whatever haa lx.cn dciived from tho Indian Depredation business, and that the foca from tho pension business busi-ness ns yet nro bo Binnll na to amount practically o none at nil. When these twogrcntdepariincnlM of tho Company nro yielding mdetnnthtl returns, which they nro sure to do, niid'wblch thcywljl do na toon na GngrcMaVnd tho'Adinliila-trntlonnwako tho'Adinliila-trntlonnwako moro fully totheconsidor-allon totheconsidor-allon duo to, and tho Justice of tho claims of, tho old eoldlerH, tho survivors of the Into war, aud tho pioneer liomc-Ecclere of tho West to tthonio the whole country owes gratitude the rvcelplaof tho Company will linreaso many fold, nnd its slock lucomo ouo of tho best pa) Ing IiiNCBlnientH in tlio country At prenent tho Income of tho Company is derived Bolely from ita patent iiusiness. On tho tub day of June, 1801, the Hoard of Directors diilarcd nonoper cent dividend on l,7UI sharca of tho capllnl Block of the Company, being tho total number of oharis l-nned to all persons inntlid thcri'to. Tlio nmount of money m-reaiary l"r this purpose was Hi'lfl. The work incident to paying tacit dividend in now being pushed with rapidity, nnd llio stockholders of the Company will shortly reccivo tho reppicilto amounts wliiih aro duo llicra. |