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Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Office Sub. Asst. Com'r.
Tupelo Miss. Aug. 31st/67

Major A.W. Preston
A.A.A. Genl. Bu. R.F. & A.L.
Vicksburg Miss.

Major.

In obedience to Circular No. 10 Dated Bu. R.F. & A.L. Office Asst. Commissioner Vickburg Miss. Aug. 10th 1867.  I have the honor to submit the following.  I have visited some eighteen of the most important plantations within reach, on most of these plantations I learned from freedmen that some of them had not registered, from the fact that they did not know when and where to meet the Board of Registration, scarcely any of them being able to read, and many of the whites taking little interest in informing them at that particular time, when the crops needed working so badly.  I learned there was a report in
circulation that registering their names was for the purpose of holding them to Military Service etc. but the report was not generally believed.  I have also made