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Rooms State Central Executive Committee, O.C. French, Secretary. R.C. Powers, President. A. Warner, Treasurer. Jackson, Miss., Nov 8th 1871. Maj Genl O.O. Howard Commissioner Bu. R.F & A.L Washington DC Dear Sir I write to inform you that my office in Natchez is still closed owing to the prevelence of yellow fever there I went there on last Saturday for the purpose of registering and attending the election which was held yesterday I found the fever worse than at any time previous, there being two hundred & fifty cases under treatment and an average of six death per day I took the advice of my friends and left on the first Boat only remaining long enough to register There is no business doing there and none of the Bounty claimants [[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]