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are efficient and have frequently suggested the idea, that six good and trustworthy men, mounted and properly equipped, would be of more effectual service to the Bureau, then a whole company of Infantry without these facilities. Almost every day freedmen women & children come 15 or 20 miles with complaints against their [[strikethrough]] masters [[/strikethrough]] employers; it frequently occures that a poor negro is shot or shamefully whipped and beaten; what can we do in such cases? We informed the gentleman politely to make his appearance at this office, (that is to say if he pleases,) and probably in one out of ten cases he will comply with our invitation, if such reaches him at all. Now, if I had about six mounted Riflemen, I would send them at once to the spot, have the parties arrested, or the affair investigated on the spot; such action would bring the rascals to terms and