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The Commissioner would simply suggest several points that require immediate settlement.

1st Parties eligible to marriage
2nd Who shall grant certificates of marriage
3rd Parties authorized to solemnize marriages.
4th Dissolving marriages.
5th Registry of marriages.
6th Regulations with reference to persons who have lived together without marriage.

The greatest care must be taken to instruct all the Freed people what the law demands of them in regard to marriage, and all Clergymen and Magistrates who are authorized to give certificates or solemnize marriage, must be earnestly solicited to aid the Bureau officers in rectifying the existing evils on this subject.

The Assistant Commissioners will forward to these Hd. Qrs. a copy of their Regulations with refer-