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National "Freedman's Savings and Trust Company,"
AMERICAN EXCHANGE BANK BUILDING, 
No. 87 CEDAR STREET, 
New York, Sept 11th 1865.

Brig Genl W. Swayne
Asst. Commissioner
Alabama. 

Dear Sir
Information has come to Genl Howard from various parts of the South, that the negroes had considerable sums of money in the various state Savings Banks at the commencement of the Rebellion, and that this money cannot now be found. 

The General directs me to write the officers of all such Banks on the subject. 

Will you therefore be so kind as to give me the names of the President and

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removed Archives stamp; not part of original document [[stamp]] NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]