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Covington Georgia
Dec 23rd 1865

Colonel
At the expiration of this year, many Freedmen will be unprovided, in this county, with homes for the next, and as the instructions, conveyed to me as agent, are without the desired information, I write to ascertain what is proposed  to be done in the cases of the infirm &c. 

Many women are encumbered with children that parties refuse altogether to employ them for the next year. Others are aged, and without protectors, and some are idiotic. With such classes, what is to be done? Former owners do not see fit to retain them longer, and employers of labor naturally want able bodied labor only, and are unwilling to be burdened any longer with the weak and children. And in many cases, women, without husbands, but with children will not consent to have their children bound out. 

Please forward me promptly with explicit directions as desired. 

I regret to report that there is still great reluctance as the part of the freedmen to enter into contracts for the ensuing year.

I have the honor to be 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obdt Servant

Wm D Luckie
Agent Freedmen's Bureau
for Newton Co Georgia

Lieut. Louis Lambert 
A. Agent