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time when the State was promptly paying bounties.

Charge Third, Communality

Specification first - in this that Genl Gregory did allow the Army discharges of several hundred men to be kept in the desk of the clerk in charge of the Claim Division when they would have been placed somewher where they would be safe.  These Discharges were valuable property, all of them entilling their owners to from one to three hundred state Bounty, and many to Govt. Bounty, and the clerk in charge of the division repepeatedly represented to the General that they were not safe in his Clerk, as almost any simple key would fit it, and suggested that they be placed in some safe place of deposit, where the Eagle Eyes of Claim Agents could not spy them out or the money of Claim Agents bribe their tools to steal them, but Genl Gregory could not be induced to acceed to any such proposition, ascerting that they were safe enough where they 

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