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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner, 
BUREAU OF R., F. AND A.L., 
Huntsville, Texas, December 31st, 1867.

To
Lieut. J.P. Richardson
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 December 31st, 1867:

I have no cases to report this Month, under the head of "civil actions" for the reasons that the Civil Officers will not give me any information in regard to cases brought before them. They have become infatuated with the idea that General Hancock has taken away all authority and power from the Bureau and its Officers, and that all military officers are now amenable to the civil law, and that they, however unjust their acts may be, are the supreme law of the land. Until this 

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