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Office Sub Asst Comr Bureau R.F. & A.L. Hempstead Tex Nov 26th/68 Bvt. Lt. Col. H.A. Ellis AAAG. B.R.F & A.L. Galveston Tex Colonal Having personally visited the plantation of "John S. Penrice"; & having satisfied myself that the Freedmen have received their full share of the eighty (80) bales of cotton shipped by Penrice to Galveston, & believing that the rights of the Freedmen in the remaining portion of the crop, is secure. I have respectfully to recommend that the money attached in the hands of