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Office Asst Sub Commissioner
Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c
Lauderdale Miss. Feby 14th 1867,

Major A. W. Presten,
A.A.A. Gen'l, Bu R. F. & A.L.
State of Mississippi,
Vicksburg Miss.

Major,
I would respectfully ask to be instructed as to what my duties are in regard to the Howard Orphan Asylum at this place, and of what relations, if any, that institution holds to the Bureau of Refugees &c. On a recent visit to our place Capt James. W. Sunderland Asst Sub Com'r, Dist of Meridian gave as his opinion, that neither the Gov't nor the Freedmens Bureau, has any management or control over the Howard Orphan, Asylum, that the institution is under the entire supervision of the "Society of Friends," The Sup'ts Commission, which

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NARA number needs to be transcribed - I disagree about the NARA number. TIPS say to transcribe everything on the PAGE, but NARA number is not on the page, it is only on the image of the microfilm.