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Commissioner for Texas, will send you a copy of his regulations if you will apply to him.

2nd. The Reconstruction laws render the provisional State authority completely subordinate to the Military District Commander. Bureau Agents are under his authority.

3rd. No authority to so dispose of other people's property, nor to do any wrong whatever.

4th. They can inflict no punishments which are not prescribed or allowed by the Military laws under which they are acting.

5th They cannot refuse legal tender, nor can any other citizen do so lawfully.

The questions seem to me to be hypothetical. If any abuse of power exists, please apply to Genl Reynolds, who is a man of established integrity.

Very truly Yours,
(signed) O.O. Howard.
Major General, Commissioner. &c.