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Sep 25th

Sir,
Your communication of 13th inst, requesting information as to the extent of your authority to "aid the freed people in Securing justice before the Civil Tribunal of the State as contemplated in the first clause of Cir No 6 from this Office", has been recd, and in reply the Asst Com'r directs me to say that by the extent of your authority, contemplated in the Cir above referred to, it was intended that the Agents of the Bureau would counsel with and advise, when called upon so to do, the freedpeople as to the best modes of proceedure in order to secure full and equal rights under the 

Transcription Notes:
Cir = Circular