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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
States of Kentucky and Tennessee.

Assistant Commissioner's Office,
[[strikethrough]] Nashville [[/strikethrough]] Memphis, Tenn., May 28th 1866

General.

I have the honor to report continued progress in the Memphis investigation.  The Congressional Committee are making thorough inquiry into origin, extent &c of the iniquity - and their report will more than substantiate all other reports of the riots that have been made public.  The villains ought to be arrested tried & punished without delay - and the damages collected from the city's receipts -

The Tenn Legislature on the 25th inst. admitted the colored man to the witness bx. in all the Courts of the State, and on the 26th, enacted a Civil Rights Bill that will if enforced secure protection to the persons and property of colored citizens