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830

30 Sept

The Military and Civil Agent
Bureau Refugees. Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands
State of Georgia

Will please Assist the bearer Maj Wm Gray and his friends in procuring some laborers to work on his and their plantations.

The laborers to be taken from parts of the state where destitution exists & in the Case must the freed people be allowed to violate their present Contracts. When the able bodied members of a family are taken to Maj. Gray or his friends the remaining portion of the family must accompany them

Davis Tillson
Brevet Maj. Genl. & Asst Comr.
Bureau R.F.&A.L.