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and parties concerned, and shall, await further developments.)
   I this connection, I would respectfully ask to be instructed that course to pursue in case the Magistrates ignore the Bureau by failing to notify &c. as there are many of them that have come to this office for an explanation of the Circular and it may be the case that some Magistrates will act upon the suggestion made by a Lawyer in my presence "that the only functions the Bureau could exercise, were to clothe and feed the Freedmen."
I am Major
Your Obdt Servt
John P. How
Asst. Supt. &c