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Land to the Bureau or for the purpose of Educationg the Freedman. They are polite in their refusal & I may be lacking in tact if it is not owing to their ill feeling

I am, Sir
Very Resply Yr Obdt Svt
Chas E Culver
S.A.C.

I have already reported the disadvantages I labor under in regard to forming Schools in Navarro Co. & today I received a message from freedmen who are not allowed to quit their plantations, to the effect that they were being abused & were not allowed to leave so as to lay their Complaint before me & wished me to come & advise them. This complaint is from Navarro County. I have a man on my hands now from there charged with murdering a freedman & altogether it is a County needs the time & attention of an Agent for a month & he should be allowed to take a serving guard with him.
Beg Reply
C E Culver

My stationery is so near out I am obliged to fill up my sheets! 

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