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here to Galveston to prosecute their claim but I can give them transportation if you direct me to do so, and let all produce move forward. A Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of this place have called at my office this morning I explained my orders to them, and they expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the arrangement. An honest planter will not experience any trouble or difficulty in forwarding his produce, but the man who curse the negroes, because he is free and the Bureau because it protects them are the ones that will suffer because they will be compelled to be honest for once, not by inclination but compulsion there are cases here where men who own no personal property but who only rented a plantation for the year have turned off their freedmen without paying them consigning their cotton to some Commission Merchant, and they have received advances on said cotton probably within