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Headquarters, Fifth Military District,
New Orleans, La., Feby 27th 1868.

Bvt Maj. Genl. J.J. Reynolds
Asst. Com'r Bureau R.F. & A.L.

General. 
The Major General Commanding directs me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 12th inst, enclosing a Pamphlet containing the Orders & Circulars under which Agents of the Freedmen Bureau, have acted in the adjudication & settlement of complaints & difficulties brought before them by Freedmen, &  in the treatment of Crimes & offences alleged to have been committed in the State of Texas; and in reply to state, that those orders & circulars may have been in force under previous district Commanders, but nothing contained therein inconsistent with the orders & instructions of the present Commander will be sanctioned or practiced in this command, as those orders & instructions are in accordance with the law.

I am General