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I was instructed by you to visit the rural points named and to arrange with such persons as the Bureau Officers should recommend for keeping office for the purposes named. three months, In every case the Officers recommended persons who were engaged in some established business and widely known to the colored people. I arranged with each one to receive applications at his shop or place of business furnishing him with a blank book for the purpose and advertising the agency in the local papers myself paying for the same. I found in each case that you had sent instructions to the Bureau Agent to render aid in the matter and calling for returns to them from 

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