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Bureau RF & AL
Office ASA Com'r
Griffin Ga Dec 5th 1866

Capt Geo R Walbridge
AIG

Capt
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your communication of this date and in reply have to say that I make and will endeavor to prove the following charges against J Clark Swayze, emigration agent. 1st making false representations to enduce freed people to leave this section of country - 2d Promising freedpeople that he would see them located in the west & failed to do so - 3d Attempting to defraud freedpeople by endeavoring to compell them to pay for transportation provided free by Government

I am Capt Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
E M L Ehlers
Bvt Col & ASA Com'r