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Office Bureau R.F & AL
Lumberton N.C.
Feby 14th 1868

Capt Allan Rutherford, U.S.A.

Capt.
I have the honor to respectfully ask for information as to the course I shall pursue with a Colored Man that insultingly refuses to appear at this Office when notified to attend, and defies the authority of the Agent of the Bureau!
I am captain
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Alfred Thomas
agt bu. R.F. & AL.