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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER,
FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
Vicksburg Miss., August 5th 1867.

Major Genl. O. O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington, D.C.,

General,
I have the honor to submit the following for your consideration.
As you are well aware, it is the custom in this country for planters to make arrangements at the beginning of the year for the cultivation of their land. This is usually done in one of two ways. Laborers are either employed at stated wages payable either monthly or at the end of the year, or they are to receive as remuneration