Email Record: Claims of the States of New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting in compliance with section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, the claims of the States of New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island allowed by the Auditor for the War Department, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874.