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This letter was referred to General Grant, and returned with the following statement:

"The views here expressed by Genl O.O. Howard, Commissioner &c., to whom the letter of Judge J.J. Good, 5th Dist. of Texas, was referred, are concurred in by me.

(signed) U.S. Grant.
Secy of War. ad int."

Official copy respectfully furnished for the information of Bt Maj. Genl. J.J. Reynolds, Asst. Commissioner of Texas.

E. Whittlesey
Act'g Asst. Adjt. General.