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inspection of Blaud; These would serve as a nucleus, & points of radiation for the several counties.

Allow me, therefore, to inquire, whether if  estimates should be made & forwarded to your Hd Quarters, for the [[evoction?]] of fire solved Houses, are in such of the above warned counties, the necessary appropriation would be made,

Complaints are frequently made at my Office, of threats being made to intimidate Freedmen, & to compel them to support men in the approaching election of Delegates for the Convention to make a Constitution for the State, who are not acceptable to the colored people, neither to the true union men of this District, In all such cases we have assured the colored people that they would be protected in the free exercise of all their rights,

For information in reference to the "administration of civil Justice," "supply & demand of labor", "permissible to work, & not supplied with labor", & "reports of schools", I respct-