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duplicate and triplicate during the month - Enter every case upon record, and a recent order requires me to report half my cases to my Comd'g officer.

My office is full from morning until night generally. I get nothing to eat from Breakfast until 5 or 6 o'clock PM. and then comes camp duties - the outside duties of the office & these interminable Reports and Returns.

I respectfully submit that neither the necessities of the service, nor law & orders - except by implication of the letter in my case - require an officer to work [[strikethrough]] require an officer to work [[/strikethrough]] 15 to 20 hours per day - and that the labor of this office - properly performed as I have endeavored to perform it alone - is beyond human endurance and that it demands the assistance required in this application, or a reduction of its duties.

If my statements are in any wise discredited at Hd Qrs it is suggested that an officer be sent to this office to perform its duties for one week - and if he will accept the position I will vacate the office and my Commission at the same time.

For my part, I have reached the limit of my capacity to endure and am prepared to accept