President signifies willingness to sign bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia. Philadelphia News, 7 April 1862.

In evening Sen. Browning (Ill.) at White House. Browning, Diary.

President receives March salary warrant for $2,083.33. Pratt, Personal Finances, 182.

In compliance with resolution of House of Representatives sends copy of dispatch from James S. Pike, U.S. minister at The Hague, summarizing methods of taxation in Netherlands. Abraham Lincoln to the House of Representatives, 5 April 1862, CW, 5:181.