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"Make such practical and judicious suggestions as will, in your opinion, under the operations of the Bureau more efficient, reporting such Bureau agents and civil officers as have neglected their duties, &c."

I respectfully suggest that a small force of Cavalry be stationed here to render the operations of the Bureau more efficient; While Gen Order No 4 will be a great assistance to me in civil cases, yet it will not answer when criminals are to be arrested, for in this County, and in several of the other the Sheriffs' deputies are disloyal and would not hesitate to give information to criminals who have committed outrages upon the blacks, instead of arresting them: The fact that no persons charged with committing outrages on the freedpeople have been arrested by them, will bear me out in the above: If a disloyal person be injured the guilty ones will be arrested. but the murderers of freedpeople never.

J. M. Hoge is a Justice of the Peace at Rusk Cherokee & refused to arrest a party when required to do so by myself.

I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
Gregory Barrett
Sub-Assistant Commissioner

Transcription Notes:
Looks like "Banett" but I found online records of a Gregory "Barrett" who was involved with the Freedmen's Bureau