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80 138 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Ab'd. Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioner's Office Nashville Tenn June 15th 1868 Palmer Lieut Col Fred. P Sub Ass't. Comm'r. Memphis, Tenn. Colonel: I am directed by the Assistant Commissioner to forward, herewith in closed an official copy endorsements on your report of outrages committed on teacher of Freedmen's school at Sommerville, Tenn, and other places in that vicinity - and to say that you will use all lawfull [[lawful]] means to bring the guilty parties to trial before the civil courts I am Colonel Very Respectfully Your obed't servant W. H. Bower. Lieut and A.A.A. Gen'l. 139 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Aban'd. Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioner's Office Nashville Tenn June 15th. 1868 McNeilly Dr. Robert Surg. in charge Freedmen's Hospital Sir: The Assistant Commissioner directs me to inform you that Mr. A. W. Walter, Act'g Hospital Steward of the Freedmens Hospital at Nashville Tenn, has been appointed a Clerk in the Office of the Sub Asst. Commissioner Nashville Sub-District to date from May 1st, 1868. He will therefore, be discharged as Act''g Hospital Steward from that date and will be dropped from your Form 2. Report of Persons and articles hired. I am, Sir, Very Respectfully Your obedient servant W. H. Bower. 2'nd. Lieut 45'th, USI and A.A.A. Genl. 81 140 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Ab'd. Lands Assistant Comm.'s Office Nashville Tenn June 17th 1868 Waters Hon. W. Watertown, Nelson County, Tenn Dear Sir: Yours of the 12th inst. has been received. In reply I have to say that I have no knowledge of any authority being given to any Agent of the Bureau to promise a schoolhouse at Watertown. At present I cannot promise any other aid than to pay a reasonable rent for a schoolhouse if the colored people will establish a school and maintain it The Bureau will cease to exist on the 16th of July next unless a law should be passed to continue it. Should such a law be enacted I may be able to assist in building a schoolhouse. Very Respectfully Your obedient servant W. P. Carlin Bvt. Maj. Genl. Asst. Comm'r. 141 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Ab'd. Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioner's Office Nashville Tenn June 17th. 1868 Campbell, E. R. Esqr Clerk U.S. Circuit Court Nashville, Tenn. Sir: I am directed by the Assistant Commissioner, State of Tennessee - Bvt. Maj. Genl. W. P. Carlin. U.S.A. to request that you furnish this Office with a certified Copy of the decree of the Circuit Court, in the Gun Factory Case, which was decided at the last session of said Court. This paper is necessary to place the matter straight upon the records of the Bureau, under whose control the
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