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reconstruction measures which Congress has adopted should not accomplish the results anticipated from them.  

With this belief, I cannot see the necessity for continuing the Freedmen's Bureau beyond the time now limited by law.

Should the people of this state, however, defeat the measures for restoring it to its proper relation to the General Government, I think it would be absolutely necessary that the Bureau should be continued and that its authority be excluded to enable its officers to hold Courts  for the settlement of all controversies arising from breaches of contracts to which freedmen are parties.))
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant
William Stone
1 Lieut 45th US Inf.
A.S.A.C.