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being sustained.  I pray your favorable action for immediate relief.  But few will enter into written contracts with the freedmen and those who do are contracting under the labor system of the late Legislature approved November 1st 1864.
From the state of affairs in counties east of this, an office of this Bureau should be located at Bonham Fannin County.
I am anxious to straighten these fellows out and abiding patiently my time.
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant,
A. Evans, Capt.,
and Sub-Asst, Commissioner