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138 naturalization papers for your brother may be procured and forwarded him, is received. In reply I have to state that if the parties guilty of assault can be found you have your recourse at the civil law by making complaint. Your brother will be obligated to go in person to the Circuit Court or some other Court of Record, and take an additional oath before he can receive his final papers. The certificate of intention and money are herewith returned. Very Respectfully Your Obd't Serv't O.D. Kinsman Sub Ass't Comm'r 273 Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery, Ala July 6" 67 136/149 Howard Maj. Gen'l O.O. Commissioner &c Washington D.C. General I am this morning in receipt of your telegram of yesterday in reference to the contract made with Mr. Nettleton. What I have written heretofore was under the impression that the details of the matter had not had your attention. This, of course, is all that I desire. Major Browning will go to Mobile this afternoon to receive and inspect all the meat referred to in the contract. Very Respectfully Your Obd't Serv't Maj Gen'l & Ass't Comm'r 274 Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery, Ala July 6" 67 /165 Sewall Bvt Brig Genl F.D. A.A.A. Genl Bureau R.F. and A.L. Washington D.C. General I am in receipt of your note of July 2", inquiring whether the transfer of Mr. J.B. Webb, an Agent of the Bureau, to Mobile, to act as Superintendent of schools, would be agreeable to me. I have no knowledge whatever of 139 Mr Webb, hence I have, of course, no objection, and presume, from Mr Shipherd's recommendation, that he is an excellent man. But some time since Mr Shipherd requested Dr Gray, a Bureau Surgeon now on duty near Mobile, to come to Mobile in the employ of his Association as School Superintendent. To this I assented, knowing Dr Gray to be an excellent man. Mr Shipherd then wrote, asking if the Bureau would in that event pay one-hundred dollars monthly towards the salary of Mr Gray. This I felt obliged to decline. The proposed transfer of Mr Webb will amount to the same thing; that is, he will be paid by the Bureau. And if we are permitted to do this I think it would be better to take Dr Gray. I do not know that Dr Gray is any better than Mr Webb, but as we proposed to do a good deal in Mobile this fall towards erecting School-houses, I naturally prefer to have primary matters under charge of persons who are known to me. And I think that Maj Tracy Sub-Asst Comm'r at Mobile, and Dr Gray, will together constitute a Board in every way reliable. And I think the high esteem in which Dr Gray is held among the colored people about Mobile will do more to stimulate them than an enterprise in the hands of a stranger I shall send Mr Shipherd a copy of this for his information. Very Respectfully Your Obd't Serv't Maj Gen'l & Ass't Comm'r Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery, Ala July 8" 67 44/140 Woodward O.A. Cashier F.S. and T. Co. Mobile, Ala. Sir Holland Thompson and Isaac Cohen, two of the leading colored men of this place, are desirous of establishing a Bank here for the benefit of their people, and have applied at this office for advice and instructions as to the mode of commencing the work. The Assistant Commissioner asks therefore that such instructions or information, as may be necessary, may be sent to this office, as early as possible, in order
