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Headquarters, District of Alabama,
Montgomery, Ala., Dec 22 = 1866.

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c.
Washington D.C.

General

I am advised by Bvt. Lt. Col. Edwin Beecher that certain vouchers paid here and transmitted to your offices for amounts due for quarters furnished to Acting Assistant Surgeons, have been retained to him with directions to retain the several amounts from the fray of three officers, respectively.

Without calling in question any general rule you see proper to adopt, I have the honor to ask that as to the cases above cited which one already past, it be not put in force their pay proper is not in proportion to the professional skills and other qualities afoot.