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New Orleans and the vouchers for the salary due my deceased husband as Agent, Bureau R.F. & A.L. for the month of Oct.

My husband kept all his private papers and money as well as the funds belonging to the Government in his own safe and on his deathbed told me I should find there money enough to bring up tenderly his two little ones.  Gen. Mower by threats and false promises caused me to give up the key and would not allow me to see what was in the safe.  The Board appointed to investigate my husbands accounts report a surplus of ten thousand dollars which is deposited subject to your order - this sir I claim as as a portion of his estate and it is unjust to longer retain it when he who protected and cared for us is gone and left