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Head Quarters Assistant Commr
Bureau R.F and A.L. Dist. Of So. Ca. 
Inspectors Office
Charleston S.C. January 4th 1868

Bvt Major H. Neide U.S.A.
Acting Asst. Adjt General.
Major,

I have the honor to submit the following facts, which convince me that it is necessary to continue the Freedmens' Bureau beyond the time no limited by law.
First. In the larger districts of this state (especially upon the Sea Islands and in Georgetown District) where the colored population is in the ratio of fifteen to one (white) and where the plantations lay in large tracts, it has been demonstrated by facts that without some Bureau of Justice other than the technical administration of the present laws, by Magistrates, the freedpeople would not secure their rights: for instance: A freedman contracts to labor with a planter: during the season, some portion of the contract is violated by the freedman, (this generally occurring from the want of a proper understanding of the stipulations) and