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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Charleston, S.C., 12th Dec, 1870 Gen. E. Whittlesey A.A.A. Gen. Washington General I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of 6th inst. Enclosing special order #123 dated 5 Dec. 1870. I hereby accept the appointment relieving Capt. Giles. I frankly expressed to the Capt. the policy I would advise & it met his equally frank approval. That policy I will lay before you, as soon as I can prepare a detailed statement of that portion of the business which has been in my hands for two years. With it I will submit two propositions for rate of payment to be allowed me; one with & the other without the payment of costs. Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. C.H. Wright