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Headquarters, Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston, S. C., March 16th 1867.

Brvt Maj. E.F. O'Brien
Agent of Bu. R.F. and A. Lands.
Mt Pleasant S.C.
Through Hd. Qrs. Bu. Dist of Charleston.

Major,
The Assistant Commissioner directs that you investigate and report to these Head Quarters, the facts relating to the settlement with the freedpeople on the plantation of one Mr. Guillaume either in St James Santee or St. Thomas Parishes.
It has been represented at these Head Quarters that the freedpeople were defrauded out of their last years wages.

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Edw. L. Deane
Bvt. Major & A.A.A. Gen'l.