Viewing page 228 of 302

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

telegraphic order directing me to seize no property as abandoned where the owner had returned to to it, the rebels are all flocking back to their former homes.

It seems to me that all orders affecting the interests of this bureau should be communicated through yourself. The issuing of an order to the military to see that the agents of the bureau suspend their operations before they have ever refused to do so, might seem to indicate that the agents of the bureau & not the late rebels