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"Make such practical and judicious suggestions as will, in your opinion, render the operations of the Bureau more efficient, &c, &c."

To make the opperations of the Bureau entirely efficient all matters pertaining to Freedmen ought to be entirely in the jurisdiction of the Bureau. But by all means the collections of their wages as they depend for subsistence upon said wages. Furthermore this Bureau can not be fully efficient without Soldiers.

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