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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Montgomery Ala., 21st September 1865.

Colonel
I am in receipt of your communication of 7th inst., which has been a long time on the way. [[strikethrough]] In had [[/strikethrough]] Unable to get agents by detail whom I could send into the part of the State where you are, I had been looking for information from that quarter, and am obliged by your interest in the work. All that you have done is not only approved, but appreciated.

I send you herewith several copies of all orders and circulars from this office, and a single [[strikethrough]] cop [[/strikethrough]] file of those issued by Maj. Gen. Howard, Commissioner, at Washington. I desire to have a good Military Agent in every county under my jurisdiction, and I should be glad to have you designate such an [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]] officer wherever one can be spared within the limits of your command.

Where this cannot be done, the next best agent is a Magistrate or a Probate Judge, only there is a difficulty about compensation, as owing to the failure in