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Bu Refugees Freedmen and AL
Office Sub. Asst. Comr Sub Dist Miss
Meridian Miss Sept. 7. 1867

Norton. Thomas H
Bvt Maj US Army
Sub Ass't Commissioner

States that the various other duties required of the Sub Asst Comr of the Sub Dist has rendered it impossible for him to visit any plantation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of G.O. No 16 Hd Qrs. 4." Mil Dist dated June 29" 1867 also states that (500) Five hundred copies of said Order have been distributed throughout this Sub District