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This man G. Gordon Adam has probably forwarded two thousand claims of colored soldiers and their widows & orphans. In many cases I understand money has been advanced on the these claims - in other words they have been purchased at a heavy discount. I have informed all parties that under the recent law the bounty &c would be paid through me & that I intend to see that the freedpeople get their money. This seems to have given mortal offence.

Another of my traducers is a Dr. Geo St.C. Hussey who is at this very moment endeavoring to swindle the U.S. out of three hundred and fifty dollars, and which I