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his application into consideration, should a second vacancy occur.  I was not, at the time, entirely pleased with the appearance of Mr. Rapp.  Having since learned that he is a man of intemperate habits and that he has been until a few days ago (when, as I am informed, he sold out with the disign of quitting Norfolk) keeping a low groggery in this city, I do not consider him a proper person to be employed in the Bureau, without taking into consideration the fact that there is reason to believe that he was concerned in the writing of a letter, under a fictious name, to the Surgeon General of the Army preferring grave charges of official misconduct against Dr. Ferdinand Lessing A.A. Surg. U.S.V. on duty in this Sub. Dist., which charges proved, upon investigation, to be destitute of foundation in fact.    

The position of Chief Clerk at these Head Quarters is one in which experience in