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others to believe that they could successfully avoid payment of these claims, to counteract that impression I would reccommend that a goodly number of the important ones, be placed in the hands of the U.S. District Attorney with instructions to press them to judgement as soon as possible. A strong fight will be made in a few cases, but when that victory is over, I think many others will be ready to make satisfactory settlement of their debts by part payments & security of balance according to circumstances. 

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

To that end, I would respectfully ask that an order of instructions be obtained from the "Bureau of Justice" to the