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5. Claims Division Claims forwarded, received, paid &c. &c. through the Office of Sub-District of Elizabeth City, No. Ca. during the month of November 1868. Claims forwarded. | Claims Returned | Claims Re-Forwarded | Vouchers Rec'd | Vouchers Transferred No. | Nature of | - | - | No. | Date| $ | ¢ | No. of | Date | $ | ¢ | No. of | Date | $ | ¢ - | Ret'd State Bounty | - | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - 3 | Arrears of P & Bounty | - | - | 2 | Nov 6th}| 140 | 50 | - | Nov. 16th | 140 | 50 | - | - | - | - - | - | - | - | - | Nov 7th}| 87 | 20 | - | Nov. 17th | 87 | 20 | - | - | - | - 2 | Widows Claims | - | 1 | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - - | Fathers Claims | 1 | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - 1 | Add'l Bounty | - | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - 6 | Sup. Evidence | - | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - in claims entered thro' distant claim agents. 5 | Eng Claims | - | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - - | On Hand last Rpt. | - | - | - | -| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - - | Amount | - | - | 2 | Nov. | 227 | 70 | 2 | Nov. |227 | 70 | -| - | - | - - | Vouchers & check remaining O.H. | - | - | - | - The business in this Department of this Bureau occupies nearly all the time [[strikethrough]] thereof [[/strikethrough]] and never a day passes but this office is crowded with freedmen seeking information of their claims already entered or requesting assistance to enable them to establish their claims entered thro' distant Claim Agents and upon their claims being suspended for further evidence whose means are inadequate to allow them to proceed to those points where they entered their claims, to make the necessary Affidavits &c. &c. & thus I have been instrumental in doing much good for them & hastening the adjustment of the claims &c. &c. as well as entering their claims thro' this Office. I have written many letters for them to assist them in creating the required evidence. Many claims are yet not entered but I hope soon to have them all established. Respectfully Submitted [[signature]] Wm. H. Doherty. [[/signature]] Agent Bur &c Elizabeth City, N.C. November 24th 1868.
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