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War Department, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Washington, February 10 1866. Col. O. Brown Asst. Com'r Colonel, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your endorsement of the 8th inst, forwarding a communication from Capt Lacy A.Q.M concerning the demand for freedmen's labor in his district. In reply, I am instructed to suggest to you that should there be an excess of labor in one quarter of the state, and a demand for it in another, that the surplus negroes from the overstocked districts, should be removed to where they can find employment; these only, going, who can be induced voluntarily to do so. I am Colonel Very Respectfully over
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