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with great care.
As it will require some time to consolidate them, they must all be forwarded so as to reach this office by the 10th of November, should cover the work up to Nov 1st.
This letter is written early that all may thoroughly prepare for the labor before them.
Assistant Commissioners may submit the reports of subordinate officers, as evidence on any point, or quote from them at length, yet nothing will excuse them from reporting over their own signature on all points of importance.
Assistant Commissioners, should be careful to have their staff officers, such as Medical Commissary, QuarterMaster, and Disbursing Officers, and School Superintendents report upon all subjects under their control.
Complete statistics on all matters should be obtained and incorporated in the body of their own reports.  They should in the general remarks prefacing their reports make an estimate of the number of colored people under their