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an award of the Freedmen's Board.

I consider this plan is recommended by its economy, its practicability, its universal application, (and some general rule in the premises is very much required) and by the fact that it provides better protection for the destitute negroes than any other.

It is submitted for your consideration

Very Respectfully
Your obt. servt.
John Gibben
Maj. Genl. Vols

To 
Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard
Comr. Freedmen's Bureau
Washington D.C.

Brief
E.M.

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