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it be done upon condition that their chance for complete and enforced separation. I therefore hope that the officers and agents of this Bureau, 
and the agents of the different benevolent associations working for the elevation of the colored race, will take immediate measures to organize associations of colored people, never excluding the white, under the name of the "Lincoln Temperance Society." There is great appropriateness in the name from the well known character of Mr. Lincoln, and from the love the Freedmen bear him. 
Please see to it that officers and agents of this Bureau, who may be interested [[?]], may be immediately referred to this Office.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
(Signed/G. O. Sonard.
Maj. Genl and Commissioner

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Respectfully referred to - who will refer to the leading colored people in the Sub. District, and use all means in his power to organize and forward the association above referred to.
Report showing the progress made in this work will form a part of the General Monthly Report of the Sub. dist Commir.
By order of,
Maj Genl Wager Swayne
O. D. Kinsman
Sub. Asst Commissioner

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Major
I forward for your information, and for transmission to the parties addressed, the enclosed letters to Sec Parker and Mrs. Mary S. Harris, (163 and 164) in answer to communications received from them relative to the affairs of the Harris Estate.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Srvnt.
O. D. Kinsman
Sub. Asst Commissioner
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[[Left Margin]] [[Underlined]] Harris [[/Underlined]] [[/Left Margin]] Mrs. Mary S.
Livingstone, Ala.
Madam,
Yours of the 24th ltr to Maj. C. W. Pierce Sub Asst Comminr at Demopolis, Ala, asking that you may be furnished with a copy of a communication from Sec Parker, relative to the affairs of the estate of your late husband, is received.
The Asst Commissioner directs me to say that it does not appear that this case is one where military interference is required, and that Sec Parker has been so notified.
This is forwarded through the Office of Maj. Pierce for his information.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obdt Servt.
O. D. Kinsman
Sub. Asst Commissioner