| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| January 5, 1864 |
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| Headquarters Labor Bureau |
| Houston, Dec. 7th, 1863 |
| All departments, railroad
companies, or other persons having negroes in their employment, will
report at the end of each and every month the number, names and the
county from which they were received; also a list of deaths and
desertions; to the Chief of the Labor Bureau. |
| By command of |
| Major Gen'l J. B. Magruder |
| T. C. Armstrong, Capt. & Chief Labor
Bureau |
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