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telegram (copy enclosed marked "C".) On the receipt of this telegram I immediately stopped the mill, concluding that I had mis-understood the purport of previous telegrams, but answered the telegram by sending the following: "The Mill is running on your order to Saw 50.000 feet Coffin boards." This was followed by another (copy sent herewith marked "D.") As I had been using the trees already cut into lengths for sawing, I was not anxious to stop at just the exact number specified, in the order, but the mill was stopped.

The Gentlemen who had run the mill under the Hunt lease, had accumulated considerable Lumber at the Mill, and contracted it to parties building a County Bridge, which had been burned during the war, and were under a forfeiture if the Lumber was not forthcoming at the stated time, and as they had paid the specified rents to Mr Hunt, the party originally leasing the Mill I did not think it my duty to prevent their removing the Lumber they had cut to meet the terms of their contract to supply the Bridgebuilders and consequently they began to make preparations to move the lumber belonging to them from the Taylor Mill; to this Mr Taylor took exceptions, and obtained from the Asst. Com'r the following order telegraphed to me, Nov 9th 1865. (Copy sent herewith marked "E') This order was immediately forwarded to my Asst. Supt. for Norfolk Co, who served the notice on the parties interested. 

Another difficulty here arose; all the Wood at the disposal of this Bureau was shut up on the Taylor Farm by this order, which induced me to inquire of the Asst. Com what should be done to supply the Soup Houses, Hospitals, Offices and Quarters with fuel?  Stating the circumstances, whereupon

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