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Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala
Sept 14th 1865

Lt L. B. Morgan
A.A.Q.M
Selma. Ala

Sir:
Your communication of Sept 11th is received. You are the dis-bursing officer of this Bureau for your District when funds are furnished you from this office to be disbursed. No moneys should be expended except upon estimate approved by the Asst Comsr Any funds accruing in your Dept must be turned over to the Disbursing officer at this office. Your returns as Quartermaster should be made to the Quartermaster General of the Army, the same as if you were on duty with the Army. A copy of your returns should be forwarded to the Quartermaster of the Bureau at this office

Respectfully,
Your obt servt,

Brig Gen. & Asst Coms'r


Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala
Sept 14th 1865

Capt Andrew Geddes,
Asst Supt R.F & A.L

Captain.
Your communication of the 12th inst is at hand. "Abandoned" lands under the regulations are those where the owners thereof

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are absent and engaged in giving aid to the rebellion. Not that the rebellion has practically ended. You are not likely to find any such real estate in your jurisdiction. If there be any property in your District that was occupied by U.S. Forces prior to the practical ending of the rebellion the owners being absent both at that time and the present and engaged in assisting the rebellion it reverts to this Bureau, and in such cases you will forward to this office a description of the property.

Very Respectfully,
Your obt servt,

Brig. Gen. &
Asst. Coms'r


Office Assistant Commissioner 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala.
Sept 14th 1865

Maj. Gen H. E. Davies, 
Comdr Dist of Montgomery 

General;
A large quantity of Hospital Stores belonging to this Bureau stored in the "Franklin Institute" have been carried away from that building within the last few days. The loss was discovered last night.

The property consisted of shirts, drawers, sheets, pillow cases, pillows, coverlids, musquito bars and bed sacks. A portion was marked "St Mary's Hospital"  The exact amount is not known to me as my Quarter Master, who is responsible for the property, is absent. Persons living near the building say that the property or a large portion of it was carried away by a regiment camped near by. I respectfully