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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Head-Quarters, Asst. Commissioner, State of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 11 1866 Maj. Lawrence I have referred your letter to Gen. Ruger. I doubt our authority to act finally in a case of this kind. But you can get all the facts, from all parties. The sale of Mr. Taylor's property, if he represents it correctly, ought not to stand, but I very much fear that he will have no redress. If freedmen are wanting employment, I can find good places with Northern men on Cotton farms at $10 per month farmed or $15 not farmed, for 100 good hands. Send them along: men preferred - but good women & boys will be accepted at fair wages. Yours Respy, E. Whittlesey Col. & Asst. Commsr