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contemplated by your Circular of the 27th ult, and they respectfully request that they be informed from your office, and that Mr. R. Churchill, Asst. Supt. &c be instructed plainly, in his duty.

I am 
Very Respectfully
Wm.H. Shield

[wrapper notes at bottom fold of page]
Yorktown, Va
Novem 11/65

Wm H Shield

Relative to the appointment of an Agent in the County of York, to adjudicate upon all difficulties arising between the whites and the freedmen.

[instructions to clerk]
Write Mr. Shield that he is correct in his supposition that the Asst Commissioner desireed white citizens to be placed on the court and that the Agent, So instructed.  The Superintendent for the Dist.  ask him to so direct the Supt. & Yorktown

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