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but am unable to so constrain my orders and duty as to turn them, and proceeds therefrom all back to the Treasy Dept.

Mr E.P. Hotchkin Treasy. Agt. at Murfreesbon, had a large sum of money in his hands prior to June 7th. He has never turned over one dollar to myself and is now creating much ill feeling in the community by his unauthorized interference with Buildings and furniture. If proper for me to do so, I would recommend that the administration of the affairs of the Treasy Dept under the management of J.R. Dillon and Sub-ordinates, be immediately and most thoroughly investigated. As an Officer of the Government, and a tax-payer, I most earnestly plead for reform. Private speculations absorb too much attention, if not too much of the money, that is not accounted for. I can