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104 If this course cannot be adopted, efforts should be made to obtain them good homes, either by apprenticeship or other means Very Respectfully Your Obdt. Servt. O.D. Kinsman Sub Asst Comm'r 220 Head-Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery, Ala June 17th 67 102/117 McGogy James F. Sub Asst Comm'r Talladega, Ala Sir Yours of the 12th inst, asking copy of the Resolution of Congress appropriating $50,000 for the purchase of seeds for the South, is received, and the desired copy is herewith transmitted. Very Respectfully Your obdt Servt O.D. Kinsman Sub Asst Comm'r 221 Head-Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery Ala. June 17th 67 Glenn Elizabeth, Auburn, Ala. Yours of the 3d inst, relative to a prosecution against you for adultery, was received, and referred to the Bureau Officer at Opelika. From his report it appears that the case is not one for military interference, inasmuch as you are not restrained of your personal liberty, bond having been given for your appearance at the November term of Court. Your only course is to await the regular time of trial before the civil authorities. Very Respectfully, Your obdt Servt O.D. Kinsman Sub Asst Commr 105 222 Head Quarters District of Alabama. Montgomery Ala June 17th 67 102/109 Shorkley Lieut George Sub. Asst Comm'r, Selma, Ala Lieutenant The Asst Commissioner directs that Wm. E. Parsons, Jr. late clerk in the Bureau, F.M. Dept at Selma, be brought before an U.S. Commissioner, with the view of having him bound over for trial at the next term of the U.S. District Court on the charge of having embezzled Govt stores. Very Respectfully Your Obd't Servt. O.D. Kinsman Sub Asst Comm'r 223 Head Quarters District of Alabama. Montgomery Ala June 17th 67 88/109 Howard Maj. Genl O.O. Commissioner &c Washington, D.C. General, I have the honor to apply to you for instructions relative to the proposed execution of a contract for the delivery of corn and bacon at Mobile, made by General Whittlesey with a Mr J.H. Nettleton. By the terms of this contract, Nettleton was to deliver at Mobile May 1st 1867 to Bvt Maj. Geo. F. Browning, A.A.Q.M. thirty thousand (30,000) bushels of white corn of the first quality, and one-hundred and fifty thousand (150000) pounds of "bulk meat of the first quality", and to receive one dollar and fifty-three cents per bushel for the corn, and fourteen and one-half cents per pound for the meat. At the time the contract was made, I am informed that corn of the quality named could be purchased in Mobile for about twenty (20) cents per bushel less than the contract price. By the time fixed for delivery it had risen in price at Mobile to about seventeen cents per bushel more than the contract price, and Mr Nettleton failed to deliver. Nothing was heard from him for about three weeks, when corn having meanwhile fallen in price at Mobile to about ten cents below the contract price he made his appearance, and claimed the right to deliver which I denied, and refused to receive the corn
