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Your letter dated the 7<sup>th</sup>
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Your letter dated the 7<sup>th</sup> [undecipherable] accompanied by
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the accounts therein mentioned have this day come to hand. They
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will be examined in course & information of the result will be duly
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communicated to you. It may be proper in the mean time to
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inform you that Capt. Morris had been written to; to inform
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me of the authority on which extra pay has been allowed to
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soldiers; to a considerable amount of which I find you have made
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payments to George Sears. As no extra pay can be allowed
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in any shape in addition to what is pointed out by Law to
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soldiers; without the express authority of the the Secretary of War.
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I perceive a difficulty <sup>unless</sup> that authority has been, or can be
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obtained. I mention this circumstance as it struck me in
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looking over the accounts. I have not so fully perused them
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as to be able to state whether there are not more changes to
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which objections may arise on examination.
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Sam [undecipherable]
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W.S.