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whose invariable object and aim was the ultimate swindling of claimants who were paid their Govt Bounty through the Bureau.

Charge fourth - Conduct prejudicial to office discipline, resulting in flagrant injustice to his subordinate.

Specification first - in this that Genl Gregory would order a clerk in his office not to obey the orders of the Adjutant Genl and, would then leave the office in charge of such Adjutant Genl for days at a time, [strike through] and when [/strike through] thus creating a necessity for the clerk to disobey his superior officer or the General, and when the clerk aforesaid appealed to the General not to place him in such a position, the matter was treated in the light of a good joke, and the clerk was repeatedly compeled to be severely reprimanded by the Adjutant Genl for refusing, or showing a reluctance to obeying his orders, when he had been