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New Orleans La. Aug. 6, 1869.

Genl. O.O. Howard
Chief of Freedmen's Bureau &c.

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

Sir,

I write you relative to a matter that may have been brought to your attention before. It is this' when St Clair Mandeville was Agent of Bureau F.R. & A.L, in this city some two years ago, he received say $25000 bounty money for soldiers discharged, which his books indicate as paid to claimants. He died very suddenly then, now the proof is certain and abundant, in say 160 cases that his books are false, and that the claimants have never received their bounty. Of all this there is no doubt, and that the money was received by Your Bureau, and paid over to him as per act of congress then in force, and that he embezzled it. Is there no remedy for all this fraud? or must one go to the Court of Claims of U.S.? It would seem that