To the Hon. Board of State Auditors:

		The undersigned respectfully asks you to
Audit & order to be paid, the inclosed account for extra
services rendered in the Auditor General's Department, in the
month of June, 1864.
		You will perceive that Mr. Anneke, under
date of July 1, 1864, refused to allow the inclosed account, and
indorsed A reason for such refusal, while the real reason
is not alluded to.   You will, also, see, by the post mark,
that although he resolved on July 1, 1864, not to pay me
for my labor, & committed his determination to writing yet
he did not send me such refusal until July 14th.
		The account, as you will observe, is in proper
form, & such as I have made for 9 years, under 4 Auditor
Generals. It is the first account of mine ever questioned
for dishonesty in the office, or out of it, during a life of
47 years. If the I have lived in Michigan 24 years,
in Jackson, Ann Arbor, Lansing, & in Hillsdale Counties
If the Board can in any one of these places, in this long
     period
perio of time, after a diligent & thorough search, find a
reasonable probability that I have ever wronged a single
individual, or the public, to the value of one cent, I will
consent hereafter to hold my peace. But until that can
be done, the undersigned cannot tamely consent to have
his reputation stabbed by a public officer, whom God, in
his [illegible in original] wrath, as a punishment for political
cowardice, has permitted to be Auditor General.
	My room mates nearly all know, & other clerks
also know that I performed much extra labor in June,
in the Auditor Genl Department. Yet I feel Reluctant
				    those who are
to call them as witnesses, for excepting ^ the mere tools
of Mr. Anneke, it would call down vengeance upon their
heads, & the other class are not impartial witnesses.




On the 30th of June, Mr. Deputy Jones informed me that
Mr. Anneke had ordered him to pay all direct all the accounts
to be paid, except mine, & said he would retain that for investiga-
_tion. That investigation was of the style of the "monarch
of all I survey," for on the very next day he writes out his
reason for refusing payment, until & sends it to me July 
14th. Although he saw me daily & many times in each
day, he never alluded to the subject until July 12th, after
  he had discharged me from the office. On that day
I presented my account up for July up to July 11th. He
					                 me
then told me that he would not have discharged ^ if my
opposition to his renomination had been decent. He refused
to pay my small July accounts, giving, as the only reason
that I had attended the County & State Conventions
without his permission. I was a delegate to the County
Convention. After informing him that I attended both
Conventions with consent of Deputy Jones, he ordered
the July account to be paid. He then informed me,
& not till then, that he would not allow my account
for Extra labor in June (although he had allowed others to the
amount of $50 & upwards) because I had spent much
time in writing letters against his renomination. I tried
to show him that I had worked for the State the extra
time charged in the account, but he would not listen
to me. He began to talk abusively, & telling him I did not
desire an altercation, I left him.
		Mr. Anneke's written refusal to pay the
submitted account, clearly says, in positive terms, that he
knows I did not perform Extra labor in the Aud. Genl
Department in June. I positively assert that he
knows that I did perform labor in his office after the
prescribed office hours; that he more than once saw &
heard me company office work with other clerks.

Having presented the main facts in the case,
the undersigned will submit the subject to your Honorable
Body, by saying that he firmly & solemnly believes that
the onely sole reason why Mr. Anneke refuses to pay
the [illegible in original] account, is because the Aud. Genl
designs to injure me in characer & pocket, because
I opposed his renomination, or rather because I would
not openly & furiously advocate his renomination. This
malicious determination has been intensifed by a
few men of the baser sort, who are his bosom
friends & counselors.
	     The undersigned hopes that you will carefully
examine the matter submitted to your your consideration,
& render him such justice as you can consistently.
	Should you consider that Constitutional or
legal objections inhibited you from taking action in the
matter, please have the goodness to allow me to
withdraw my papers.
     Respectfully submitted.	D.M. Bagley
Lansing, August 10, 1864.