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the 6th instant, without being instantly relieved, created a hope that as the volunteer force was being withdrawn the Bureau would die an unnatural death Today it is asserted on the street that Texas is in the Union, and that all the judges who as yet have decided on any matter touching the Bureau have decided against it Against which I hold to the rulings laid down to me and the act of Congress creating the Bureau A distant branch of the Bureau, as mine is, depends as much on its physical ability to enforce its rulings as on the talent of the party representing it The force at my command has been rather small Had I had a little more force the disturbances of the month would not have occurred  By the enclosed correspondence you will see I opened my office on Monday last, 21st For closing I would request I be not censured:- I turned it to advantage very effectively, which I will explain at some future time I would respectfully draw the Genl's attention to the necessity of paying not the slightest attention to a decree of a County Court in any case whatever where a minor is concerned I am prepared to prove that the action of the courts in nine cases out of ten where minor freedmen are concerned was nothing more or less then a continuance of slavery I have quoted to me every day the alleged action of this and the other Sub-Asst Commissioner in this and that case, hoping thereby to induce me to rule as they allege the others have done I hold to my own sense of right under your ruling, and am confident of being sustained every time an appeal will be taken from me