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acting Commissary of Subsistence, He is the best man for the post within my reach, and has given bond though not an Officer. 
Will this do or must a person actually in Commission be announced
I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
                   
Maj General

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Hd Qtr District of Alabama
Montgomery Ala April 30th 1867

Walker Rev J. M
Selma Alabama
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Dear Sir
Your note of inquiry as to the aid that the Bureau can afford the colord people of Selma in their efforts to establish a school as auxiliary to the formation of a Presbyterian Church for themselves— is one of many similar applications that I am constrained to refuse, because of the fact the funds of the Bureau must be used only for independent schools for all children of whatever denomination Besides this we have plans in foot for the erection of a large school house or houses sufficient to accommodate all the colored children in Selma, which we hope to have completed in a very short time, and which will require all the funds at our disposal for that locality.
Very Respectfully Yours
Maj General


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Hd Qtr District of Alabama
Montgomery Ala April 30th 1867

Howard Major General O.O.
Commissioner &c
Washington D.C.
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General
Before the passage of the Military bill I found myself unable to secure throughout the State the service of Circuit Agents of the Bureau for a duty which involved so little power to accomplish what was needed that it was not worth the while of an efficient man
Now I am anxious to place at the


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head of each of two or three Subdistricts, men of ability and legal knowledge to whom I can confide discretionary power to dispose of such complaints as come up in great numbers to this office from those districts and are yet two distant for such careful inquiry as a director of final action.
Col. Robert. T. Smith of Randolph County who served in our Army as Lieutenant Colonel of an Alabama Regiment, and Judge Conally, who has been a truly loyal man and voted in the Legislature for the Constitutional Amendment have consented to serve, and I wish to put one of them at Opelika Junction and the other at Eufaula
Both these are men of family and of prominence who cannot leave home for the ordinary compensation of a clerk I should like to give each of them two hundred dollars monthly. — This may seem loyal, and yet I beg you will remember I have never been extravagant in this regard, and will appreciate my meaning when I say that they can each take care of several Counties looking after the Administration of the law - making addresses to the freedmen - and at the same time can command the confidence of every body. They can also look after the distribution of supplies, and the public will know that what they do is well done.
I would like also to put one or two such men in the — South western portion of the State, but have not found them. I would like authority to employ them when I do it will be only for this year, and will be true economy
I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Maj General

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Head Quarters Dist of Alabama
Montgomery Ala May 1st 1867

Jamison Col R. J.
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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Sir
In reply to your letter of yesterday I have to state that whenever you have a suitable school house prepared for the reception of colored children at the proposed settlement near Tuscaloosa, we will furnish a competent teacher.
If you will make arrangements to board the teacher, the Bureau will pay the salary, and the