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[[Bu]]reau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Office Sup't 2d District,
Petersburg, Va., Dec. 21st 1865.

Respectfully Returned. Mr. Wakefield was employed by my orders from Sept. 12th to Sept 30th at $50 per month, and reported thus; the amount due him therefore has been waiting for him for two months

His being employed prior to that time I know nothing of, as he was never reported to this office.

When I assumed charge of the affairs of this Dist, I found Capt. Toby employing a large number of men without any authority therefore and paying
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them in rations and promises. On the 24th Aug. I ordered him to discharge all civilian employees except 2 Masons and 3 Carpenters, as we had no funds to pay them, which order he entirely disregarded, as was found after he was relieved and mustered out, by Accts from different persons employed but never reported by him. to the amount of some $2.000. being presented to this office.

Capt Toby's administration was a wholesale swindle of poor honest men, who worked for him in good faith and should be paid. Many of them were paid in Rations which he drew for 
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