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I plainly stated to him that he and W. Stazeland were at issue, replied that he complied with my request for a list of the several complaints. I thought at the time that the Complaints had been simply in order to cause criade, extra work and disturbance in the Office and unless there are papers which he alleged had been taken away to which he was certainly entitled, as of right, especially as he by implication asserted that they had been taken away for my sake only. I can only say that I never had knowledge of any paper being taken from Mr. Gibbons' Office without his consent and that I believe no paper was ever taken from his office.
I do not believe there are more than this one other cases. I can only attribute Mr. Gibbons' complaint to a like intent to embarrass the work in the Office by his letters and applications for documents and to increase my work very greatly, causing heavy judicial questions to remain undisposed of. He has entirely succeeded in doing so.