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Captain Samuel Place Asst Sub Assistant Commissioner, states: "I have the honor to report in compliance with instructions, that in my opinion the Bureau should be continued beyond its present limitation, not only for the benefit of the freedpeople, but, for the good of the whole country. This opinion is the result of personal observation in four of the largest Districts in this section of the State, since the first of June 1866, and is based upon principles of justice and humanity and not upon political expectations, or mercenary motives.

In justice to the freedpeople the Bureau should be continued, as a safe-guard to prevent them from being cheated and defrauded out of their labor, and protection from abuse and outrage, to which they are constantly subjected by their former masters, which practice is not the exception but the general rule in my Sub District. The frequent cases of outrage which I have reported from this District, in which the civil authorities have failed to dispense justice to the freedpeople, is sufficient to prove that they have nothing to expect from that source, and so far as I am informed the only protection they have received, has been through the Officers and Agents in the Bureau, acting under orders and instructions from Bureau Headquarters. 

The principles of humanity dictate, that the Bureau or some similar system should be continued until