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No 178 Toledano Street
New Orleans

Brevet Major General O.O Howard
War Department 
Bureau of Refugees and Abandoned Lands

General
This morning I had the honor of receiving your package of the 21st of April. I am unable to perceive that what is contained therein furnishes me any means of procuring a settlement. These papers direct me to treat with Col. C.W. Mason only, a Gentleman who positively refuses to comply with the agreement he made for the United States Viz to furnish materials for the building he also refuses to have any further communication with me, in matter of Straight University. In the papers sent to me, I do not see that Col. Mason has expressed a desire to make any amicable settlement, according to the agreement entered into, with