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I respectfully ask you to send to me copies of an order to the Confederate troops in your depart=ment to permit such cotton as I may [?] by my permits [?] to pass the lines without molestation & such goods as may be brought into the state f in for the use of the state in the hands of any one I may designate I will take care that the per-mits are not abused, and shall cause all such [?] or expentation whether passed by your troops is not to be specially reported, and you especially informed—that any attempted abuse of the privalege by any party may be detected—

I go to Jackson on Saturday ^next^ before I expect to meet my agent who is to making arrange-ments to operate through New Orleans, in conjunction with the Consul there of any European powers—the cotton to be shipped to Europe—I shall make some