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that by registering and voting they would be held liable to Military service &c. I have taken particular pains to inform the freedmen of the time and place that elections will be held and the necessity of them producing their certificates of registration at the polls &c.

I am very Respectfully
Your Obed't. Servant.
W. H. Eldridge
Bvt. Lt. Col. & Sub-Asst. Comr. 

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