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to the expense of execution of the same, and sent the papers to Washington, assuring the party that he should receive the bounty, - the same being obviously impossible under existing regulations, the result of the transaction being that in the course of a year or so the papers will returned to the Bureau, with the information that nothing is due, and disappointing the claimant who should have been truthfully informed at the outset. 
Against such wilful wrongs as these, the clerk of Maj Bolenius entered his solemn protest [[strikethrough]] in the name of the freedmen [[/strikethrough]], thus [[strikethrough]] engendering [[/strikethrough]] increasing if possible in the mind of the said Bolenius an aversion and repugnance to the said clerk, which originally sprung from [[strikethrough]] known [[/strikethrough]] similar acts of contentious independence, and from such personal aversion the said Bolenius, refused to act upon any suggestion of his clerk, choosing rather to do wilful wrong