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I am persuaded that Gen Reynolds cannot expect or desire us to yield the essential prerogatives of Executive officers even to Military Authority.  The Bureau can have no interest opposed to ours, since we are both unselfishly seeking the good of third parties.  We must be workers together, and as workers together, must confer with one another and adopt plans mutaully agreed upon. In a somewhat extended experience with officers of the Bureau of all grades, including very intimate personal relations with the Commissioner himself, I have not as yet, with the single excepton already alluded to, found the slightest difficulty in meeting all the wishes of Officers in charge.

If nothing unusual is meant by the unusual paragraph alluded to, I shall at once see my way clear.  If otherwise, I shall hope to be frankly and fully advised of the precise meaning intended.

With Great respect
Jacob R Shiperd
Sec'y-

J. J. Reynolds
Bvt Maj Genl & Asst Comr-

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