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

To
Lieut Charles 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 30th, 1867:
Complaints are coming in daily, from Davis, Marion, Rusk and Panola Counties, of the bad treatment of the freed people by their employers.  As but a poor crop of cotton has been raised, the employers are anxious to get rid of their freedmen, and resort to every possible dishonorable means to accomplish it.
A squad of four soldiers from the garrison at Jefferson, Marion Co, were guarding a Government wagon with supplies for a detachment of the 20th Infantry, stationed at Boston, Bowie Co, and when near Linden Davis Co,

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