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Department of Justice
Washington Dec. 18, 1871.

Hon. Wm. W. Belknap,
Secretary of War.

Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, enclosing a request of the agent of the Freedman's Bureau at Huntsville , Ala., that legal assistance be given to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama in certain prosecutions before the