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[[preprinted]] FREEDMEN'S BUREAU, PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Meridian, Miss., ^[[30th July]] 1865. [[/preprinted]] Leut Col R. S. Donaldson Actg. Asst Commr Freedmens Bureau Jackson Colonel I would respectfully recommend that a Provost Marshal of Freedmen be sent below this place, on the M. & O. R. R. to be stationed at some point below Enterprise, Shubuta, is in a rich fertile Prairie County, and the plantations are large, one of them of Four Hundred: I am Colonel Very Respectfully Your obt svt [[signature]] C. W. Clarke [[/signature]] Provost Marshall Freedmen