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States reconstructed by the President concerning the status and the rights of the freedmen. On the 3d of March preceding, Congress had passed an act organizing a bureau in the War Department for the care of refugees and freedmen in the districts in rebellion or in the territory embraced in the operations of the army. This bureau was officered by a chief commissioner and assistant commissioners for each of the
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States declared to be in insurrection. These officers were authorized to take possession of the abandoned lands within these
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States,