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226 the District the General has written to Gen Woods fully. The General has had an interview with the Governor and the Mayor of Mobile on the "Cab & Dray Ordinance" and at present he does not wish to take action. He will investigate it further. Very Respectfully, Your Obt Servt A.A.G. Office Asst Coms'r B.R.F. & A.L. Montg. Ala. Feb 2d 1866 Lt A. Grobler A.A.Q.M. Gainesville, Ala Lieut; Your communication of the 25th ult is received. You may permit the colored people of your place to use the Armory building for a school house and to fix it up with the lumber from the house that was blown down. Will you please report to this office the probable value of the Government building in your charge that you are ordered to transfer to this Dept. Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt, A.A.G. Office Asst Coms'r B.R.F. & A.L. Montgomery. Ala. Feb 2nd 1866 Capt T.J. Kerr. 227 Chief Q.M. R.F. & A.L. Con Col G.D. Robinson, Supt &c. Mobile, Ala Captain; Your communication by your son is received. Gen'l Swayne directs me to say that you will proceed with the sale as heretofore contemplated unless Gen Woods should direct otherwise. Gen Swayne will not interfere in the matter at all. It is left in the hands of Gen Woods entirely. Very Respectfully, Your Obt Servt A.A.G. Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Montgomery, Ala. Jany 31st 1866 Bvt Maj Gen Wager Swayne Asst Commissioner &c. General; On the examination of the claims of the Tallassee Manufacturing Company to certain buildings estimated in the Village of Tallassee Tallapoosa Co. Ala, which were seized by the Agents of the United States Treasury as property captured from the late rebel. Gov't and which were afterwards turned over to the Bureau. I have become satisfied from the Affidavits and other evidence furnished by said company that these buildings are and were at the time of seizure private property and not the property of the late Confederate Govt, I would therefore respectfully recommend