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State. There is but one dispensary, at Jacksonville, and but one Medical Offices beside the Surgeon in Chief.

I reached Charleston, S.C. on the 5th of April, and in accordance with instructions contained in your letter of the 27th of March, I at once proceeded to Texas, via New Orleans. I arrived at Galveston on the 13th and thence went to Austin where I had frequent interviews with Bot. Maj. Gail Reynolds Assistant Commissioner.

For details of my inspections I respectfully invite your attention to reports made from Houston, Austin and New Orleans.

I visited different parts of the State. The Sub-Districts embrace large extent of territory, the stations. of Officers are widely separated, and the means of travel and communication very limited. This has tended in a great measure to obstruct the contemplated work of the Bureau.

General Reynolds manifests much interest in his official work, and does all in his power to protect the freedmen, and to secure to them the rights conferred upon them. He has been much embarrassed and the work of the Bureau has been obstructed by the orders of the District Commander, restricting the power of the Bureau Officers, and committing the freedmen solely to the protection of Civil Tribunals. The Magistrates of the higher courts of law are loyal men, fair and impartial in their judicial duties, but the juries always discriminate against the freedmen. But few, if any arrest are made by civil authorities for crimes committed by white men against negroes.

The withdrawal of the garrisons from the