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68 9th inst. and that you can submit it your papers to him for examination, after which he can bring the papers up for the General's signature. Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant (Signed) O.D. Kindman A.A. General Headquarters Dist. of Alabama Montgomery June 6 1866. [[left margin]] Pollard. [[/left margin]] Col. Chad. T. Pollard. President- Ala of G.W.R.R Montgomery, Ala. Sir, An officer is to be sent to Pollard Ala., to be present at the taking of depositions relating to repairs made by the United States Government on the Ala. and Great Western RR. General Swayne would be pleased if you would call and see him in regard to the subject. He is not informed as to the time when the depositions are to be taken. Very Respectfully, Your Obed't Servant, (signed) O.D. Kindman A A. General Head Quarters Dist. of Alabama Montgomery, June 7th 1866 [[left margin]] Howard [[/left margin]] Major General O.O. Howard Commissioner, of Washington D.C. General, In reply to so much of your letter of 4th alt. as directs me to make inquiry and report the number of persons requiring seed corn and the quantity of land to be seeded, I have the honor to 68 report that while lists according to the required form were immediately commenced and are still in active preparation, yet the result of the collateral inquiries has [[strikethrough]] already [[/strikethrough]] satisfied me that not only is the season already too far advanced for any useful distribution of seed grain this year, but that no such distribution need be provided for. The grain crop of this year will, I think, reach nearly the average before the war, both in quantity and quality, and if not wholly consumed by immediate necessity for food will I think meet all future requirements for seed. That it will not be wholly consumed, I infer from the sharp experience they have had of the necessity for seed, from the [[strikethrough]] forgotten [[/strikethrough]] fact that most of the persons who have grain crops have also a little cotton which will afford them relief before the corn, which is their principal crop, is ripe, and from the further fact that Governor Patton will leave in few days for Saint Louis and Chicago, where it is hoped he will be able to purchase a large supply of corn with which to supplement the food issued by the Government. I have thought it proper to express to you this conclusion, as as I arrived at it. The returns will nevertheless be forwarded as soon as they can be got in from the counties. Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, Wager Swayne Major General Asst. Commissioner.
