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Office A. A. Commissioner 
Bureau. Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, 
Aiken S.C.

Bvt. Lt. Col. H. W. Smith 
A. A. Genl.

Sir 

I have forwarded to Bvt. Lt. Col. Low, A.Q.M. vouchers for the payment of a citizen clerk which you verbally give me instructions to hire as at that time I could not procure a suitable man from the troops stationed at this post.

On the arrival of the present Command I succeeded in obtaining a clerk and discharged the one I had hired. Will you please inform Colonel Low of the necessity of his being paid.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt.
Ben P Runkle
Bvt. Brig. Genl. and
A. A. Commissioner 

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