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A15 ("Copy")

American Freedmen's Aid Commission,
SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
444, Fourteenth Street, above G,
Washington, D.C., January 8th 1866.

MATTHEW SIMPSON,
President.
JACOB R. SHIPHERD,
Secretary.

O. G. Shaw. 
76 John St. NY.

Dear Sir; 
The United States Sanitary Commission, in pursuance of its purpose heretofore published, caused on the 1st inst to receive for collection, the claims of soldiers and their heirs who are creditors of the Govt, for back pay and bounty; or pension. A very large number of these claims are still outstanding; and many will be lost to the needy, or devoured by unprincipled Attorneys. 

The Genl Agent of the Claim Dep't has appealed to this office to undertake the cases of colored claimants at least, and I have consented to do so, until the completion of our organization shall permit me to represent the facts to the Commission.

I have further consented to receive the papers of such of the white claimants as to belong to the more necessitous classes -