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that the Government claim is unjust. The property is advertized to be sold on the 17th inst. - consequently no time to be lost, in case you conclude to make one more effort to have the Government deal fairly and honestly by parties who are trying to establish a self-sustaining manufacturing business in this extreme southern portion of the Military District. If continued it will afford employment for a large class of Freedmen, and in the end do them more good than the $3.000. - In short the Government can well afford to pay the owners of the property $3.000. and abandon this unjust claim. I am fully satisfied that the money $3.000. cannot be raised. If you make another effort, let me know the result. Respectfully yoursLyman Mallery. for H.B. Claflin & Co. War Dept. Bureau R.F. and A.L. Washington Mch 10th '68. A true copy E. Whittlesey A.A.A. Genl.