Special Message

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I have the honor to submit, for the consideration of Congress a letter and inclosure + from the Secretary of War, with my concurrence in the recommendation therein made.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

+ Report from the provost-Marshal-General, showing the result of the draft to fill a deficiency in the quotas of certain States. and recommending a repeal of the clause in the enrollment act commonly known as the three-hundred-dollar clause.