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These agents can appropriate the money they obtained to their own use and make such money and report of their transactions as they see fit. My question was pertinent and I want to know how you appropriate these fines. The people would like to know these things, also when their money goes out they would like to be informed as to what use it is appropriated. My question in the article refered to was no charge, I was simply asking for information that our whole community was interested in.

I know nothing of my own knowledge of the character of individuals who have accepted office in negro commands, but I was often told by officers and men of the white troops in the U.S. Army during the late war, that no man who was worth a damn ever accepted command with these   troops, and I am disposed to credit their statements indeed I would dislike to find a gentleman in such company.

I might have been more explicit on some points of your article, but I believe that I have been sufficiently