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have elicited replys satisfactorily. I believe though, were it not for the strong arm of the Bureau, many cases brought for advocation, would be slighted, and Freedmen changed from their present position of order, to that which would be adverse and calamitous.

I am General
with great respect
your most obedient servant
Henry K. W. Ayres
A. S. A. Com'r &c

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