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claims should be collectd or some arrangement made whereby they should have to pay nothing to anybody.  Genl Gregory really knew that there promises [strike through] really [/strike through] amounted to nothing, as the whole batch of claims had been formally rejected by the Comptroller and the Discharges returned to the Bureau .  All of this Genl Gregory plainly showed that he would willing endanger the interests of the colored people rather than give up a point of pride as it is well known that most of those who have withdrawn their discharges have had to dispose of their interests in their claims at a reduction of from one half to one third the amount originally promised by the [strike through] State [/strike through] Bureau, by whose action they were precluded from placing their discharges in the hands of reliable claims agents at a