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Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
Office Agent Seb Dist McNutt
McNutt Miss Apr 3rd 1868

Respectfully returned to the Asst Commissioner [[?]] Miss. with the information that no order has yet come to hand, [[?]] the Hd Qrs of this Sub Dist at Shell Mound, and I would respectfully state that no building for an office can be secured at that point since receiving this I have been to Shell Mound and could make no arrangements whatever for either an office or a boarding place, there being no buildings at the landing one used as a store and the other a very small dwelling house. I seen [[?]] or [[Ris?]] in [[?]] the only [[?]] that I [[?]]
  
[[stamp]] Freedman's Bureau State of Miss Received 1868[[/stamp]]

able that a Hd Qrs. could be established. I hope that no order has been issued [[?]] the agent at command for it [[?]] impossible for him to comply with such an order [[?]] a building could be [[?]] from office and corrupment made for House Keeping -
Allen Huggins
Agent Bu. R.F. and A.L.
File
G.O.#15-Bureau 1868.