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people were present who had been seriously wronged by him, they publicly, and in the presence of the freedmen, countenancing a man, to them well known to be a crafty scoundrel, and virtually weakening the [strike through] pow [/strike through] prestige of the Bureau for good, by engendering distrust in the minds of those who looked to it for protection against just such notorious swindler as they saw countenanced by the General in a public manner, whether such moral encouragement was extended on account of said man's being connected with the "Gregory Women's Home" deponent sayeth not.

Specification 3d - in this that Genl E.M. Gregory did allow his office to be used as a rendezvous for claim agents runners