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

BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS.
Office Disbursing Officer State of Missouri.
F.A. SEELY, 
DISBURSING OFFICER.
No. 708 Chestnut Street.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov 18th 1871 

General 
I have your telegram of yesterday and letter of 15th inst. and have answered the former. In reply to the latter and in explanation of the discrepancy you speak of will say that from the first I have never kept my Bounty fund at the Sub Treasury here, but at the Merchants National Bank. This was in the first place for the sake of keeping it separated from other funds in my possession as D.O. and since that time for the convenience of having my checks returned to me whenever required to make payments by check. When Gen. Sewall inspected my office he inquired particularly into this matter and approved what I was doing, only suggesting that I should not