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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [/stamp]]

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far as I could show the same in such a statement. By reference to the marginal figures & explanations, it will be seen that many of the large claims that were secured by the crop of 1868, & could have been collected then, were, by the operations of the "relief commission" that sat in Charleston on the Cr Jan'y 1869 allowed to become worthless. The practiced workings of that commission, has resulted in shifting the indebtedness of planters to factors, upon the United States, by allowing the crop of 1868 to go to factors instead of the "Bureau", Tens of thousands of dollars were thereby hopelessly lost, without essentially without essentially aiding the planters in making another crop, or giving employment to the  Freedmen.