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between the two divisions and two clerks. This consolidation
can be affected with the following result:
One clerk can keep "Letters Received" except the index thereof; two clerks can keep "Letters Sent" and indexes, one clerk can brief all letters and adjust Attorneys fees; one clerk can keep indexes so "Letters Received" and look up cases and other miscellaneous work; one clerk can keep the "Certificate Record" or "Bounty Register" together with Blotter indexes etc, and one clerk keep all records of communication of nations and have general supervision of the certificate work. This work is now performed by ten clerks
7th   Chief Disbursing Officer
We see no necessity for change in the Disbursing Office, except that indicated in the above paragraph relating to the transfer and consolidation of the certificate work in one Branch.  It may not be improper, however to recommend earnestly for the complete protection of the Commissioner, that the course pursued in putting "widows and orphans claims" (so called) be at once changed, and that said claims be settled through the same channel and in the same manner as original claims.
These claims are now being settled entirely by Mr. H. H. Roy.
[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]