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Genl O Brown
Asst. Commissioner
Bureau R. F. & A. L.

General
The undersigned members of the constitutional convention respectfully represent that owing to secret organizations among the rebels and other causes too numerous to mention, many of the colored people in the counties represented by us will be prevented from exercising the right of Suffrage at the coming election unless additional measures are taken by the Bureau to convince them that they will be protected in the free exercise of this right.
We would therefore respectfully request that you appoint Mr. George W. Black as an Inspector of the Bureau for these counties whose duty it shall be to inform the Freedmen in regard

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