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informed me until I promised Col Delany, Col Dulan, was compelled clear his house in the Navy Yard. and I took the responsibility of assigning him to a house in Portsmouth totally unfit for a respected person to live in. but under the circumstance of prison he was forced to take it. This house was transferred to its owner who demands immedate possesion. This the Loom house turned over by Gen Howard, After much higgling on the part of Capt Dudly, AQM Capt Low AQM took the responsibility of turning the house over to this Bureau and on the same day Aug 14. I leased the Lucas house to Col Dulaney, Capt Lucas tried to create the impression in the mind of M. Mann to whom he applied for relief that I had acted unfairly and ungentlemanly. and that I had promised to rent the house to him (Lucas)  I compelled him to withdraw these insinuations in presence of the General and to acknowledge that I never gave him a part of the house.