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HEAD QUARTRES, COMMISSION FOR REGULATING RELATIONS BETWEEN FREEDMEN OF INDIAN TERRITORY, AND THEIR FORMER MASTERS.

Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation, Jan. 17, 1866.

CIRCULAR No. 3.

I...Major EGBERT T. SMITH, Special Indian Agent at Boggy Depot, is announced as Acting Assistant Commissioner of Freedmen, for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and will exercise all the rights and power, and perform all the duties of Indian Agents, as Acting Assistant Commissioner for the respective tribes of which they are Agents.

II...Acting Assistant Commissioners, will impress upon all, the fact, that all liability to pay for labor performed, is to the Freedman performing the labor, and not to his former master, or any other person, and that payment made to such person will not bar a claim made for the same labor by the Freedman himself, at any time within six years from the performance of the same.

JOHN B. SANBORN,
Brevet Maj. Gen'l. & Commissioner.

Fort Smith New Era, Print.

[[stamp]]
BUREAU R. F. & A L
REC'D
FEB 12
1866
WASHINGTON
[[/stamp]]

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