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were, after a while discharges were found to be missing when the claimants called for them with the Bureau receipts.  These facts were made known to the General, but he still persisted in refusing to provide a safer place.  At last [strike through] they [/strike through] the cases of missing discharges became so numerous that the Clerk took what remained to Genl Gregory and besought him to take them and place them in safety at the same time representing that they were daily disappearing from his desk by some unknown means, and justice to the owners required that they should be safely kept, and that the faith of the Bureau had been pledged that they should be returned to the claimants when called for, and that men were daily comming who had been