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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Eastern District of North Carolina,
New Berne, N.C., April 6th, 1866.

Dear Sir
I have received by hand of Maj Camp a lot of Blanks for application for back pay, bounty &c for soldiers & seamen. I regret being unable to find in the assortment any form for application of the discharged soldier himself. Out of some 200 discharges already presented here for such application not more than 3 or 4 are presented by any party but the soldier himself. They are coming in at the rate of a dozen a day, and we have not a single form we can use for them. I presume this is an oversight which Maj Fowler will correct if his attention is called to i. The indications are that we shall have from 500 to 1000 applications of one kind or other, and shall need one if not two more good clerks to do the work, which will be immense. Really it appears as if the fee of