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of this report seem to have contributed to some extent. I have good reason to believe that some success attended me in my endeavors to explain these causes and the difficulties connected with the payment of bounties and to properly represent the anxiety and continued effort of the Commission to secure an honest and vigorous payment of the same. With regard to our agent Mr. McMullen although perhaps a man of integrity, not withstanding if the statements of irregularities made about him, he has not succeeded in paying bounties without many complaints, and cannot continue the work without subjecting the Bureau to criticism. Receiving no pay latterly for his labors in paying bounties he has doubtless been compelled for support to devote his time largely to private affairs to the neglect of the bounty business. I therefore recommend that he be relieved and that the payment of bounties in the vicinity of Clarksville Tenn. and Hopkinsville Ky. be entrusted to our agent at Nashville. Deeming it unnecessary to visit Mr. McMullen and hear his explanation of the charges against him (as they concerned in large measure other than bounty matters). I have excused myself from making more than a reference

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

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