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whereupon the following Telegram was received in answer. (Copy sent herewith marked "F".) We have therefore been supplying our Offices &c from this Farm since, keeping account of the Wood thus taken.

No wood or logs have been cut on the Farm by order or permit from the Officers of this Bureau since receiving the order to stop operations. 

Mr Taylor has not yet receipted, for the Farm, insisting that all the Freedmen shall be removed, before receipting for it, while there are over (700) seven hundred women and children on this place, whose husbands and fathers are away in Texas and elsewhere in the Union Army.

These are dependent on the Gov't for support, and would be utterly helpless if turned off the place, as no home could be provided for them, without taking somebody's land to locate them on, which would be as unjust to the parties owning the land, as it is to Mr Taylor to hold his. Besides the Government has built a large number of comfortable board and frame buildings to shelter these families, and have been to great expense to erect suitable houses for school purposes and worship. These will be a dead loss to the Government and will entail greater expense upon the Gov't, than would be the damages, to hold it as a Military necessity, beside interrupting the schools now flourishing so finely there, and bring upon the helpless women and children untold sufferings.

Further than all this, the Government have pledged their good faith with these families of the men, who have gone out to fight the battles of the

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