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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, D.C., Oct. 19th 1868

Gen' Scott
Special Agent &c
Charleston S.C.

Dear General,
Your letter of October 16th with its recommendations is approved. You may suspend the payment of the bonds of those people who have received advances and lost their crops till the 1st of November 1869 charging no interest for the coming twelve months. It will not be safe to relieve the people to whom this favor is granted from the interest for the last year, because the same thing would be demanded by any man who has realized a fair crop, and it would not be just to them; besides I am greatly in need of the money. However, as a matter of accommodation, I will take the responsibility of waiting twelve months without any further interest, as the original interest is enough to cover contingencies.

This is the best I dare to do without an Act of Congress.

In case I shall be relieved from the office of Commissioner before November 1st 1869 I shall have some successor in law