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Department of State 
Washington Oct 3. 1866

Major General O. O. Howard
Superintendent of
the Freedmens Bureau
Washington D.C. 

General: 

This Department has information that plans are on foot to lead freedmen to move abroad, and in particular to Peru, upon a promise of higher wages than they receive at home, and probably by other inducements

As there is reason to believe that these promises will not be fulfilled, it is deemed to be the moral duty of the 

over,

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