Viewing page 147 of 248

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

2

Commissioner &c,
I have not yet heard whether my plan of compelling the former owners to take care of helpless freedmen is approved. 
I therefore forward this statement as the strongest case against this course that has yet been brought before me.
 
O Brown
Col. & Asst. Comm'r. &c.

War Department.
Bureau Refugee Freedman &c.
Washington D.C, Sept. 19th 1865,

Respectfully returned.- no general rule can be given in such cases, counties should take care of their helpless poor.— and they should be put to work on Government farms when possible, Col
(over)
Brown will endeavor to work "out such" individual cases as many come to his notice,

By order of 
Major Genl Howard Comr,
Max Woodhull
Asst. Adjt. General,

EB 
82
1865

File
2.B.466.

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-01-15 18:22:01