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promised their Bounty and the return of their discharge, who really had lost both bounty and discharge through the fault of the Bureau, to all of which representations Genl Gregory turned a deaf ear and ordered the clerk to take the discharges back to his desk and keep them their, which he accordingly did though under firm protest, and with the renewed assertion that they were daily disappearing.

Specification Second - In this, that Genl Gregory did give the moral support of the Bureau to a well known and notorious scoundrel, who for years had been amasing a fortune by swindling colored men, and that when flagrant cases of fraud and extortion were proven upon him, Genl Gregory refused to take any action in the matter when other men had been made to refund in similar cases, and that the General did continue to receive in the most cordial manner this man before the whole office, when colored