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Office Sub Ass't. Commissioner
Bu. of R.F. and A.L.
Kaufman Texas
June 25th 1867.

1st Lieut. J.T. Kirkman
26th U.S.A. A.A.A. General.
B.R.F. &c Galveston Texas.

Sir:
I have the honor to report that I preceded in making the arrest of A P Gardner (Co Clerk) implicated in the murder of Alfred Jones, Moses Shaw, Dacy Ercery, (freedmen) and turned him over to the civil authorities of Kaufman County Texas where the offense was committed The civil authorities immediately put him under bond of ten thousand dollars ($10.000) with sufficient security for his appearance at the District Court of said case to from term to term till the case is disposed of others of the party Dan, Gibbs, and J.M. Barnet. I failed to get being absent from the county. 
Very Respectfully
A. Evans
Sub Ass't. Comm'r.