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Office Provost Marshal Genl &c.
Bureau R.F. & A.L. Dist East Te. [[Texas]]
Houston Te. Nov 30. 1865

Brig Genl Gregory
Chief Freedmens Bureau
State of Texas

General
I have just returned from a tour through Montgomery Walker, Trinity Polk and Liberty counties and for your information I have the honor to respectfully report that in some parts of the above named counties the negroes are not yet free, that the "old system of whipping and abusing them has not been abolished, further the hunting of freedmen by bloodhounds is carried on to a great extent that a white man who is disposed to be loyal to the United States Government cannot hire a freedman without the permission of his former owner, for fear of being killed. Committies have been established in some counties to prevent the freedmen from going to their homes in other states and to whip all freedmen that attempt to live with their families or those that try to get their children

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