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Office Sub-Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau,
Meridian, Miss., ^[[9th September]] 1865.
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Leut S. D. Barnes
A A A G Freedmens Bureau
Jackson Miss

Leutenant

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of 5th Sept 1865. Your letter of August 17th directed me to forward "on the last day of this and each succeeding month, Reports, the first with history of each expenditure or"

I construed this to mean that my accounts were to run until the end of the month.

I have since the end of the month and before receipt of your instructions, had som printing done- Proclamation of President with Circular 7 & 9, in convenient form for distribution. Also a Marriage Record, a bill of which I will forward as soon as received.

I enclose herewith ($21.15)