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of the case of a man who represented that the Comptroller promised him his Bounty, any time he would bring his Army discharge from the Bureau to identify him and that the Comptroller had in his presence paid a friend of his (the freedman) his full bounty, and all he needed to get his, was his discharge.  

Genl Gregory instead of promptly giving up the discharge and cheerfully aiding him to obtain the bounty, represented to him that his Bounty was just a sum to be collected through the Bureau as anything could b and that he had better let his discharge remain in the Bureau - that the claim was bound to be paid without expense to him (the claimant, and so positively and demonstratively were these promises made that the man agreed to let his discharge remain. The result of which is, that the man lost his chance of obtaining