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HEADQUARTERS, ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,

Beaufort, S. C. Aug 15th 1865

General,

I have the honor to forward for your information a copy of the regulations I have established on the marriage relations of the freedmen under my charge which I hope may meet you with your approval. They may seem complex but every days' experience shows that they could not be less so and provide for the most common cases we have to deal with. Can not the blank books for registering the