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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office. Sub. Asst. Commissioner
Jackson Mississippi
July 6th 1868

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c
Washington D.C.

General.

At the urgent request of the "Committee of five" I enclose their Communication to you.

I can endorse the statements of the "Committee" and would add that I have many complaints daily from those representing that they have been "turned off" for no other reason than voting the "Radical Ticket" -  It is very difficult to substantiate the charges as the Employers in nearly all the cases claim that the have "good & sufficient" cause for so doing and in very many cases bring proof of their statements which we are

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