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Rooms of Commission
to revise the U.S. Statutes
Plant Buildings.
Nov. 13 1871

Genl: I mail to you to-day 3 copies of a pamphlet, containing among others "The Freedmen." I wish you would examine it. These copies are sent out merely for revision & examination by competent persons, before finally submitting them to Congress. Does "The Freedmen" contain the whole law, as it now exists, in a clear intelligible