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[[strikethrough]] reports says that
Major Delaney &c [[/strikethrough]]

Head Qrs., Asst. Sub Asst. Commissioner,
Bureau of R. F. and A. Lands,
Hilton Head, So. Carolina,
December 30th, 1867.

Brevet Major General R.K. Scott,
Asst. Commissioner,
Bu. of R. F. and A. Lands,
Charleston, So. Ca.,

General:
In compliance with note of Hon. T.D. Eliot, Chairman, Committee, House of Representatives, dated Washington, D.C., Dec. 9th, 1867, in reference to a Resolution of the House, I have the honor to suggest:

That experience and observation [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] from more than two years official duty in the Bureau of South Carolina, satisfy me that in the event of adequate protection to the Freed People, either by the established military or civil regulations, there will be no necessity for a farther continuance of the Bureau, after its expiration by limitation.

First, the Freedmen must be protected against the impositions too frequently practiced by large cultivators of hiring people by the month, at fixed wages till the end of the year, then refusing to pay them from the time of "laying by the Crop" till cotton picking time, when they then consent to pay them only by the pound for what each hand picks, the laborer to loose all the intervening time from "laying by


 

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