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Department of Justice
Washington Nov. 4 1871

Hon. W.W. Belknap.
Secretary of War.

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d inst., enclosing therein a copy of a communication from Mark Edwards Esq., Disbursing Officer of Claims of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned lands, relative to the refusal of the U. S. Attorney at Memphis to indict certain parties for violating the 13th section of the act of July 4, 1864 in defrauding ex solders of their bounty