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272 [[left margin]] Tracy 269/276 [[/left margin]] Head Quarters Sub Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala Dec 1st 1866 Bvt B.R.F and A.L. Mobile Ala Major Your live communications of the 29th Ult asking transportation for sixteen(16) persons-one to Boston Mass. and the remainder to Shreveport La. and stating that these persons will not be any further expense to the Government; after reaching their destination is received. In reply I have the honor to state that it is the policy of the Bureau in this State to give as little transportation as possible and to confine it entirely to parties who by reason of age, sickness, or other infirmity cannot support themselves - who having no friends to care for them are objects of public charity, and who by being sent to some other point will reach friends who are able and willing to support them. It is not shown in your letters that these parties are inmates of the Colony of your District and if they are not they are no expense to the Government. Your attention is called to Circular No 2 series from the Commissioner. I am Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servant O.D.Kinsman Supt [[left margin]] Pierce 270/285 [[/left margin]] Head Quarters Dub Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala Dec 3rd 1866 Bvt Maj C.W. Supt Bureau R.F. and A.L. Demopolis Ala Major The assistant Commissioner deride that the property held in the name of L.A. Phillips at Demopolis but now in the possession of the Government be at once turned over to him and that you make report to this office of the amount of compensation to which in your Judgement he is entitled on account of its being occupied by the Government during the past summer. I am Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servant O.D.Kinsman Supt 273 [[left margin]] Hudson 267/301 [[/left margin]] Head Quarters Sub Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala Dec 4" 1866 Maj Edn M K. 15th Infty Major I am directed by the Major General Comdg to say that your application for leave of absence which passed through these Head Quarters during the absence of the General, endorsed and signed by me in his absence was returned for his remarks and, has been again forwarded and approved by him. I am Major Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servant J L. Coningham 1st Leiut 15" U.S. l and A.A.A.G. [[left margin]] Howard 234/288 [[/left margin]] Head Quarters, District of Alabama Montgomery Ala Dec 5th 1866 Major General I.I. Commissioner H. Washington D.C. General I am in receipt this morning of your of 26th Ult advising me that there will be about $23,000.00 to apply on rents and repairs of school buildings in this State. Vigorous and carful measures will at once be instituted to turn it to the best possible account. We are in a highly prosperous condition as regards schools in operation, and a bill is making favorable progress in the Legislature for a State System of schools for colored persons, with a pro-rata division of the school fund, as is required by the adjudges meauing[[measuring]] or the word "inhabitants" in the original appropriation of the public lands in all the States for purposes of education. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wager Swayne Maj. Gen. & Head Commis
