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REPORT OF
MAJOR-GENERAL WAGER SWAYNE
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR ALABAMA
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
OCTOBER 31st, 1866.

HEAD-QUARTERS, DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, 
Montgomery, Alabama, Oct. 31, 1866.}
Major-General O. O. Howard,
Commissioner Bureau of Refugees and Freedmen,
Washington, D. C.

General:

I have the honor to submit the following report of the conduct of the Bureau in this District, for the year ending this day.

At the beginning of November, 1865, martial law, concurrently administered by the Provisional and Military authorities was in exclusive force in this State.

Judges and magistrates throughout the State were connected with the Bureau by the following Ordinance of the then recent Constitutional Convention:

"Be it ordained by the People of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, That the civil officers now and heretofore acting, or instructed to act, as the Agents of the Freedman's Bureau in this State, under the Proclamation of the Provisional Governor, shall, and are hereby required to continue to discharge the duties thereof, under the rules and regulations heretofore prescribed, until the adjournment of the next General Assembly."