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For want of a Bureau Agent in Choctaw Co. society there seems to be falling into chaos. The great mistake in the administration of affairs in the Cotton states, it seems to me, was in not regaining the summary collection of debts while the military were in occupation. 
Now it is proposed to collect the same debts with the disjointed machinery of a disordered Civil government and to turn families out of their mortgaged possessions, who have been brought up without labor and who have no other means of Subsistence. Such parties necessarily become desperate and change their ruin to the hated "yankees" and if it does not end in a general guerilla war I shall be surprised. This is inevitable unless the collection of suspended debts is backed up by military force.

There is no Confederate or other property in the possession of this Bureau except office furniture. There are two temporary buildings built on the lands 

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Couldn't make out a lot of the words, but otherwise finished.