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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Office Acting Assistant Commissioner, State of Georgia.

Augusta, Ga. October 25th. 1865

His Excellency James Johnson 
Provisional Governor
State of Georgia
Milledgeville

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

I have the honor to state that it will probably be found impossible to obtain a sufficient number of offices from the Army to organize this Bureau and distribute them throughout the State in such a manner as to prevent loss of time and vexatious delay in the transaction of business.

Under the circumstance I have the honor to request that you will instruct such of the justices of peace and the Ordinaries of Counties as may be designated from this Office to act within the limits of their jurisdiction as Agents of the Bureau thereby enabling the people to adjust their difficulties and maintain the police of the country through the convenient channels to which they have been accustomed.

I beg leave to state frankly that in my selection I should be guided wholly by questions of competency and fitness.

Such of these officers as may be