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advertised twelve (12) times in the Daily Mail of this city, and five hundred copies, in pamphlet form were struck off. This expenditure was by the order of T.W. Conway then Genl Supt of Freedmen, Dept. of the Gulf, under whose order I was acting; but the bill was presented to me for payment, and was finally paid by order of Brig. Genl. Swayne Asst. Commissioner of this State. 

Afterwards, to supply the demand of country districts remote from this city, where mail routes had not, as yet, been opened or renewed, I found it necessary to order five hundred (500) more copies in pamphlet form printed. 

I found on my arrival in this city, in May last, the city crowded with idle freedmen, and the tendency on the part of many more was to come here to seek employment. To prevent the evils of this course of action, and drive these idle freedmen from the city, I found it necessary to issue passes to such as had employment, and arrest and