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I fear the worst results regarding the payment of the freedmen for their labor - of course there will be many honorable exceptions to a charge so serious, but any opinion is based on the subject generally -

There would seem to be necessity for prompt measures to convince the opponents of the Bureau that it still exists -

I am, Major, Very Respt
Your Obt Svt
Jas M Powell
Capt V.R.C. & Bvt Lt Col U.S.A.
Asst Supt &c