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all cases will cause the equitable contracts entered into between planter and Freedmen to be kept inviolate by both parties-

The encouragement & fostering care of all worthy enterprises for the systematizing of industrial occupations at the South is one of the chief aims and objects of the Freedmen Bureau and you may rest assured that your contemplated organization for demonstrating to the planters that paid labor can be made more profitable than the old slave system will receive all support both moral and physical that the government working through officers of the Bureau can throw around it.

I have the honor to enclose for your information Circular 2 from my office here. Which will give you more definite information as to my ideas of what is to be done in this work than could be given you in a letter- With my earnest wishes for the success of your proposed enterprise, I am
Very Respectfully
Yr obt Servant
Clinton B. Fisk
B Genl A.A.G. & Comm