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Office Agt. B.R.F.& A.L.
Bluffton SC. Aug 24th 1867

Bvt. Major Genl.
R.K. Scott Asst. Comm.
B.R.F.&.A.L. Charleston SC.

General

For sometime past and in fact ever since I have been in Bluffton parties of Freedmen have been applying to me to know how to obtain their money from the Bureau Cotton Agency on Hilton Head where they took their cotton last fall.  Knowing there was no such thing as a Bureau Agency  I did not pay much attention to it at first, thinking it was some idle fancy of theirs.  A few days since John Lindsay a respectable and intelligent Freedmen came to me and presented the certificates of which I enclose true copies, with his statement in regard to the affair.  As the transaction was at Hilton Head (over)