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the passage of the bill.

I trust this measure will have your approval. If it does it may also have some value as a precedent.

I am, General,
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant

Bt Maj Gen


Office Asst Coms'r
B.R.F. & A.L.
Mont. Ala.  Feb. 15th 1866

Maj Elderkin
Chief of Subsistence
Mobile, Ala.

Major;

I have the honor to send you the following copy of a Telegram received from Capt T. Taylor, Talladega, Ala.

"The A.C.S. is entirely out of rations. Please forward supply as early as possible".
Thos Taylor
Capt 34th U.S. Vols"

Very Respy
Your Obt Srvt
Capt & A.A.G.


Office Asst Coms'r
B.R.F. & A.L.
Mont. Ala. Feb. 15th 1866

Bvt Col A. Von Schrader
Inspector General
Nashville Tenn

Colonel;


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Herewith I have the honor to enclose to you the report of an officer who visited Russell County, as you requested when I last saw you. I found the original had been forwarded to Washington, and I to wait until a new one could be compiled from the memoranda in the officers possession.

With the report I enclose copies of the Orders and Circulars it was found necessary to print. We were at one time compelled to be to the last degree economical in this particular.

Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant

Bvt Maj Gen'l.


Office Asst Coms'r
B.R.F. & A.L.
Mont. Ala.  Feb. 12, 1866

Hon John Forsyth
Mobile, Alabama

My dear Sir;

In the Advertiser of Saturday I observe you express a natural though somewhat mistaken feeling in regard to the "Freedman's Court" in Mobile".

I have not considered the adoption of the system of Civil agencies as peremptorily binding me to have no others, though I have practically taken the same course as if it had, interfering only when there was palpable necessity. If you entertain a different opinion or such opinion is generally entertained, I will thank you to advise me, and I will ask advice of the gentlemen who compose The Supreme Court