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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Office Assistant Commissioner. For State of Mississippi. Vicksburg, Miss. November 21st 1865 Maj Genl O.O. Howard Commissioner &c. General I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the papers forwarded by Joseph E Davis making complaints of the treatment of his negros on Davis Bend. He had made such complaints to me before he forwarded these papers I have appointed a board of Officers who are now engaged in a patient examination of the whole matter Their report, together with a Statement of the Freedmen themselves will be forwarded as soon as the investigation is closed. I am Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant Saml Thomas Col and Asst Comr State Miss.