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War Department, 
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS.
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, 
Washington, D.C.,  May 11th 1867

Sir:

In reply to your communication of the 7th inst, submitting your record for services rendered freedmen etc, I have the honor to inform you (as stated to you verbally a few days since on presenting the accounts in person) that there is no just claim upon this Bureau for compensation, There is no evidence that you were employed by Dr. Horner for this service, or that he intended you to understand that you were.  If such had been the case, he should have entered into a contract with you for a specific service and at a stated rate of compensation to be approved in this office before being valid -

In November 1866, this Office called upon Dr. Horner as Surgeon-in-Chief of the District of Miss, to furnish certain information reporting the number of negroes employed in the hospitals of his Dist., during the years 1863 and 65, as you have recently been in charge of the hospital at Lauderdale, and previously at one or two other points in the service of the Bureau, and were at Vicksburg at the time Dr. Horner, received these instructions, 
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