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0475

Executive Office
Jackson Miss, Sept 19th, 1866

Genl,
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor of Mississippi to inform you that your communication of the 8th inst in reference to the reported ill treatment of a teacher of a Freedmen's School at Canton, was referred to Colonel S.S. Calhoun Dist Attorney 5th Judicial District "for his information with a request that the good citizens see that the teacher be protected in all his peaceful pursuits;"  and that Col. Calhoun has returned the same with the following endorsement: - 

"Canton Miss, Sept 18th 1866: - Respectfully ret'd. I am satisfied that any representations which may have been made on this subject set forth within are false. I live in this town and have heard nothing of them. - If true, the palpable remedy of the party threatened would be an affidavit before a J.P. and a proceeding to put the parties threatening