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Report of Officers of the Bureau R F and AL in the State of South Carolina relative to the necessity for continuing the Freedmen's Bureau.

Bvt Colonel John R. Edie  U.S.A. Sub Assistant Commissioner reports: I have only been "a few days in command of this Post, but have seen enough to lead me to believe it would be inexpedient and unwise to leave the freedmen without the protection afforded by the Bureau, until at least a year has expired after the time which the Bureau is now limited by law."

Major M.R. Delaney  Ass't Sub Assistant Commissioner reports: That experience and observation 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 imposition 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 have 

Transcription Notes:
So it looks like all those [[strikethrough]] on the previous pages of letters telling the opinions of the Bureau officers had been edited by R.K. Scott to use in this report.