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August 24th.

Sir,

Your communication of August 18th has been received. My case of the freedwomen Georgiana Stubbs and Isa Smith is one in which the civil law should take action, and if they insist upon its being continued they must take it before the Civil Court. The Asst Com'r directs me to say that where a party refuses to pay a judgment (such judgment being within the limits provided for [[?]]) rendered against them by an Agent of the Bureau, in his official capacity, that, upon the Agent reporting such facts to this office together with a statement of the case, the necessary steps will be taken to compell said party to submit to the just requirements of the law. In the case to which you have called special attention, where certain parties have refused to settle with freedmen according to contract of 1865, you are directed to furnish this office with a copy of the contract in aquestion, the names of the parties whom you ordered to settle with the freedpeople referred to, the place at which said parties may be found