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that you would allow nothing so ungrateful to the ear of the Lawyer and shocking to the American freeman to prevail, as the right, clearly assumed by Lieut Smith Agent of the Freedman's Bureau, of supervising my decisions of the Statute law of the State. Nothing, however, would afford me more satisfaction than to have the Supreme Court of the State, the Tribunal in whose hands the law places the power, investigate such constructions as I have been called upon to give, of the law of the State upon this subject. As to the Agency of the Freedman's Bureau, General, you will pardon me for reminding you that I retain it involuntarily - that I was required to do so by an Ordnance of the Convention of the State, and that while its administration is entirely gratuitous, it has devolved upon me a complication of labor and trouble that I would gladly avoid. I have too high an estimate of yourself, however, to be willing that the character of my administration should suffer from the secret attack of Spies and Informers - foiled, perhaps, themselves in their attempted violations of the law of whose administration they complain, and I therefore earnestly invite your suggested investigation