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Bureau of R F & A L Office Asst. Supt Sub-Dist of Weldon Halifax, N.C. April 3d 1867 Col Jacob F Chur A A A G B R F and A L Raleigh N.C. Colonel I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st inst. In reply I would respectfully state that the person or persons, informing you that I had failed to obey the instructions of the Act. Asst. Com'r: were certainly mistaken. I have already made a report of the facts but I will state them more fully. Immediately upon receipt of Mr Little's communication of the 4th inst., thro Col Cogswell, I notified Mr Burgwynn, by mail, that these hands were under contract & directed him to send them to this office. Soon after, - on the 8th - a freedman in the employ of Mrs Skinner came here with a letter from Mr Little. I was busy at the time but gave him a note