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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner, 
BUREAU OF R., F. AND A.L., 
Palestine, Texas, September 30, 1867

To 2d Lieut Chas Garretson 
A.A.A. Gen'l, 
Bureau of R. F. and A. L., Galveston, Texas: 

Sir: 
In compliance with Circular Letter, dated Headquarters, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, State of Texas, Galveston, December 31, 1866, I have the honor to submit the following Report for the month ending September 30, 1867:

The feelings of the white people towards the freed people has not been changed since my last report, the white people act moderately for fear of the Bureau.  

The principal business of the Bureau during this month was the dividing and settlement of crops.
 
The freed people make efforts to 

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