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HEAD QUARTERS,
Bureau of Refugees, freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF LOUISIANA.

New Orleans, September 26th 1865.

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c
War Dept. Washington D.C.
General:
I beg leave to enclose herewith copies of my circular in regard to the State authorities and the Freedmen.  I issued the circular in accordance with your request in the letter enclosing General Swaine's action on the same subject in Alabama.
The action was necessary, and I think, will be productive of good.
I enclose also the comments of one of the A.O. papers in regard to it.
I have the honor to be General
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servant
Thomas W. Conway
Asst Commissioner, Bureau
of Ref. Freedmen & c. State of Ga.