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19 334. Hd. Qrs. Dept. of Texas,

                                                                              San Antonio, Tex., April 20, 1872.

A.G.O. General E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General of the Army Washington, D.C. through Hdqrs. Mil. Div. of the Mo.

General,

                  I have the honor to enclose you herewith a Certificate of disability in case of Major DeWitt Clinton, Judge Advocate of this Department.  He has been unable to attend to his duties but a small portion of the time I have been in command of the Department, and the Surgeon now certifies that he cannot stay with impunity longer in this climate.
          My own opinion coincides entirely with the Surgeon's in this particular, and as Major Clinton has served in this Department nearly four years, I respectfully recommend that he be ordered to some Northern station, and that another Judge-Advocate be sent to replace him at these Headquarters.
          This Department includes more troops, I think, than any other, and the duties of Judge-Advocate are important and onerous and cannot well be borne by my limited Staff in addition to their other, legitimate duties.
            I have no Adjutant-General or Inspector General and ask for none, but would like, as soon as one can be had, an efficient Judge-Advocate.
                                                                           I am, very respectfully
                                                                              Your obdt. servant