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I have the honor to report the following number of rations issued to destitute white persons in the month of September at Mobile Greenville and Montgomery, the only places in this District where such issues are made.

Mobile 26,092 Value $5218.40
Montgomery 19,415 $2211.36
Greenville 264 $ 29.99

Very Respectfully,
Your obt servt

Brig Gen & Asst Coms'r

Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala. Oct 1st 1865

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Maj. Gen O.O. Howard
Comsr &c
Washington D.C.

General:
I have the honor to transmit herewith monthly report of Freedmen to whom rations &c are issued.
The report is necessarily incomplete from the fact of so many changes occurring among Agents of the Bureau.
I have sent an officer from this office to the several points in the State where I have Superintendents for the purpose of instructing them in regard to reports and hereafter they will be made promptly and complete.
Very Respectfully
Your obt servt.

Brig. Gen & Asst Coms'r.

Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala. Oct 4th 1865

Maj Gen O.O. Howard
Comsr Bureau &c
Washington D.C.

General:
I have the honor to apply for the transfer to this Bureau of the following property, to wit-

I A quantity of irregular clothing and blankets now in the hands of the Q.M. Dept at Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio.
Some of this clothing is second hand, issued at the beginning of the war, defective in color, or quality, or moth-eaten.

II A quantity of surplus underclothing now in the hands of the Q.M. Dept at Columbus and Cincinnati Ohio and Mobile, Alabama. Much of this property is now offered at public sale, and much more of it must soon be. It is offered in large lots, where there are few poor enough to wear it, and brings little or nothing. Extortionate prices are here exacted from the destitute for such articles. It is believed a service can be rendered to humanity without loss to the Government by the transfer to this Bureau for use in this District of such portions of such class of property as the Commissioner may approve, and to be disposed of under such restrictions as he may see proper to impose.

Very Respectfully,
Your obt servt

Brig Gen & Asst Coms'r