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to join their parties. Some favorable reports were made, & Mr Harris was appointed Employment Agent at a Salary of $75. per month; but the complaints were still made that parties were bribed and the Agents refused to send people to the quarters, keeping some in their own house, & having others boarded in private families.

Since Mr Harris' dismissal from the Employment Agency, Miss Harris doing nothing for the Bureau, they have attempted to monopolize the rooms, & to furnish applications for Servants, & Servants for Applicants; many of which have proved to be missing = embarrasing our work, until I was obliged to say to Mr Hennessey (Empt Agt) that it would not be safe to make applications on their recommendation & suggestions, then came the refusal of Miss Harris to allow women sent here by Mrs Griffing to have quarters in the rooms, unless they would lodge with the men - 

I have endeavored to treat the matter as favorably for Miss Harris as I could in every particular & have tried to make her & brother useful, but have failed to do so - there is now no reason why they should occupy the rooms above mentioned, except it may be a small Store room where Miss Harris' stores the good sent here from the North - this however, is needed only as a private enterprise, and in my judgement should not be continued in this connection, as goods sold by parties claiming to be Agents for the Bureau or acting in connection therewith - becomes mixed up so that it goes out that the "people of the North send garments &c for the freed-people, and the Bureau Officers
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