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investigation be made and stating the names of the parties most likely to be suspected of peculations, and suggested the most likely mode of obtaining the desired information, but General Gregory refused or neglected to institute such investigation, though professing to believe that a certain [[strikethrough]] party [[/strikethrough]] third party was engaged in stealing the said discharges systematically.

Specification third - in this that when it was clearly represented to Genl Gregory that the books and records of the office were not safe, and that the office was left after three o'clock in the charge of a person totally unreliable and facts produced to show the same Genl Gregory took no known steps to correct matters, though acknowledging that he strongly suspected a party in his office of [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] evil practices.

C.W. Hildreth,
Clerk in Claim Division

Transcription Notes:
peculate: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else