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Department directs that all this property be returned over to you. As no collection have been made by me or under my Supervision I have nothing in my hands nor in the hands of my agents to turn over to you nor have I any authority to continue the contract with Maj. Ross Wilkinson for the collection of the property described. I would therefore respectfully recomend [[recommend]] that you give Maj. Wilkinson a similar contract for the collections of the property for which he holds receipts and the location and history of which he knows. I believe he would be more successful in Securing it to the Government than anyone else
Very truly your
J. M. Tomen
Sup. Spl. Agt. Fr. Dept.

Genl. Wager Swayne
Asst. Comr. of Refugees
Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Montgomery Ala.

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