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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters Assistant Commissioner State of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C., 16th Novembr, 1868.

L 159 Vol. 2. 1868. 

Maj. A. Rutherford 
A.S.A. Comr
Wilmington.

Major:-

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of Nov. 13th inst. enclosing a  letter from the Co. Commissioners of New Hanover County declining to take charge of certain indigent sick now under the charge of the Bureau upon the ground that they have no legal settlement in New Hanover County by a continuous residence in Rowan County and suggesting that authorities of Rowan County and suggesting that the authorities of Rowan County be called upon to take charge of them &c. The reasons set forth in this refusal are considered to be mere subterfuges