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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Disbursing Agent of Claims,
Nashville, Tenn., ... 187 .

Beyond reasonable expectation. My second - that I be prepared to show the fact - I think is likewise as accomplished. Say for instance a claimant should come forward disputing payment - We have first the vouchers of the Chief D.O. signed by himself - duly attested &c Second we have the receipts given this office for the money, on which appear the names of identifying witnesses &c. Then we have his signature upon his check, the testimony of bank officees as to amt. and date of payment, and the testimony of those who accompany him to bank. Since the 1st of June I have forwarded you monthly one copy of claimants receipts given this office. I have in my safe here like receipts for every claim that I have ever paid which I will in time forward with my other records. These receipts form valuable sub vouchers to those of the Chief D.O. giving no. and amt. of checks, dates of payments, names, residences, sex of witnesses, so that for years, a claimant might be traced from the date they furnish.

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

If it had been required of agents to pay as litterally enjoined by Resolutions of  Mar. 29, 67 -