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JLL 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters Assistant Commissioner State of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C, 1st Oct. 1868.

Col. John R. Edie.
Asst. Commissioner
Columbia. S.C.

Colonel:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your com'n. of 29th ulto, containing forty four dollars & thirty cents ($44.30/) being the amt. collected from Mr. Kennedy of Laurensville, in favor of Ben Bruner, freedman, less expense of registering the same.
I am Colonel.
Very respectfully
Your obt. svt.
Nelson A. Miles
Col. and Bt. Maj. General.
Asst. Commissioner. 

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