12.  Referring  to  a  communication  of  Gen.  Fry  to  Major  Littler,  December
10,  1864,  was  the  list  of  251  therein  referred  to  ever  shown  to  you?  If  so,  by
whom,  when,  and  what  action  was  taken  upon  it?

13.  Did  one  Peter  Gordon,  D.  T.  Pike,  or  any  other  person,  in  the  autumn
of  1864  exhibit  to  you  a  list  or  roll  ostensibly  of  enlistments  into  the  U.  S.
Marine  Corps  in  the  District  of  Columbia,  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  your
sanction  to  their  being  credited  on  the  quotas  of  districts   or  sub-districts  in


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Maine?  If  so,  describe  the  said  papers  as  minutely  a*  you  can,  the  manner  in
which  they  were  tied  up,  signed,  scaled  and  certified,  the  number  of  names  they
contained  in  all,  the  persons  in  whose  custody  they  were,  the  declarations  such
persons  made  in  relation  to  them,  and  the  action  which  you  took  in  reference
to  them.
14.  Did  you  at  first  undertake  to  assign  these  names  to  towns  and  afterwards
=>nd  refer  the  whole  list  to  the  P.  M.  General  at  Washington?

15.  How  long  after  such  action  were  you  relieved  from  duty  as  A.  A.  P.  M.
