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October 6th

Captain

Reliable information has been received at this office that parties in Macon have been telling the freedpeople when approached by parties desiring to hire them to work in the west that such parties only want to take them to Atlanta and sell them into slavery. The Asst Comr directs that you notify the citizens that any person making such statements, will be arrested and punished unless they can establish the truth of such assertions. and that the names of all parties circulating such reports be immediately forwarded to this office. 

Very Respectfully
Your Obd Servant
W.W. Deane
Brevet Major & A.A.G.

Captain N.S. Hill
A.S.A.C. Bureau of R.F.& A.L.
Macon Georgia