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458 Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala March 16" 1867 434/461 Savage Lieut. E.B. Comdg Post of Montgomery, Ala. Lieut I have the honor to request that you give to the men of your Command every opportunity to attend divine service in Montgomery, arranging your hours of Inspection &c in conformity thereto; and that you extend every facility to those from whom they may receive like benefits in hospital or camp. Very Respectfully Your obdt servant Major General Comdg Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala March 16" 1867 449/473 Whipple Bvt Maj Genl W.D. A.A.G. Dept of the Tenn General I have the honor to forward herewith the Weekly Station Report of Companies serving in the Dist of Ala for the Week ending March 16" 1867. I am Genl Very Respectfully Your obdt servant Major General Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala March 18" 1867 152/ Whiting Lieut L.J. Sub Asst Comr Bureau Montgomery, Ala. Lieut A col'd man named Fortune Gilmore having been assaulted by two white men named Patt Sullivan & John Burke, complained to J.H. Nettles J.P. who had the parties bound over to appear for trial. In the meantime the Col'd man is arrested and placed in jail upon complaint made before the Mayors court by the parties who are charged with the assault. You will please 459 have the affair investigated and learn upon what charges the Col'd man Gilmore has been placed in arrest reporting the result of the investigation to this office. By order of Major General Wager Swayne 1" Lieut 24" U.S.I. & A.A.A.G. Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery Ala March 18" 1867 451/ Howard Maj Gen O.O. Commissioner &c Washington D.C. General Referring to your letter of November 20" providing an appropriation of some twenty five thousand dollars for repairs and for construction of school buildings, I have the honor to report that partial drafts upon that sum have been made monthly since that date in small amounts. But having now, after much effort and prolonged negotiation, arranged for sites for school buildings at various important points, with the fee simple secured in trust with suitable conditions, an incorporated all the help to be secured from aid societies and freedmen. I beg leave to recommend the following appropriations. Mobile for three school houses $3,600 Mobile for one Graded academy 8.000 Marion for one good central school house 2,000 Selma for one good central school house 4,000 Montgomery for one large Central School House 8,000 $25,600. In all these cases the purchase of ground will be by aid societies or freedmen and the donation employed as a building fund with such additions as hav been or can be secured. The general estimate approved, particular reports will be submitted in such instance, when the detail of arrangement are perfected. It will be observed that the sums enumerated reach the full amount prescribed in your communication, making no allowance for the sums expended heretofore. This is proposed in view of the final clause of your note, which described the sum collected from Confederate property, as further applicable in this way.
