Text this: Expenditures for the issuance of bonds and certificates. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting pursuant to law, a detailed statement of expenditures made under the act entitled "An act to authorize an issue of bonds to meet expenditures for the National Security and Defense, and for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the war, to extend credit to foreign governments, and for other purposes," approved April 24, 1917, as far as such expenditures have been submitted to the department up to December 1, 1917.