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Office Sub Commission Freed
Canton Miss Sept 2nd 1865

R. S. Donaldson Lt. Col.
Act Ast Commissioner

Sir: I have the honor to request a quantity of General Orders No. 5 (Office Asst. Commissioner State Miss Vicksburg Miss July 29th 1865) Also Circular No 9 (August 4th 1865) And Presidents Proclamation, And General Orders No 34 (Plantation Regulations Dated March 23d 1865 About One hundred Marriage Certificates One hundred Freedmens Contracts About twenty Blanks for binding or apprenticeing children with definite instructions on the same Please send the contracts as early as possible. I am entirely out of contracts and they are called for daily

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
[[signature]] John W Critchfield [[/signature]]
1st Lieut And Sub Com Freed

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style of cursive, lowercase "ss" (ex. Miss for Mississippi, Commissioner) may at first look like a lowercase "p," a single "s," or "fs"