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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, 
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
Montgomery, Ala., Sept 15th 1865.

Chaplain S.S. Gardner
Asst Supt Refugees &c
Selma, Ala.

Sir; 
Your communications of the 11th inst are received.

Cases that require the action of this Bureau occurring in the Counties of Autauga & Loundes should be referred to the Asst Supt at Montgomery. Refer all cases from those localities to the office at this place. The Circular letter from the Secty of the Treasury of date June 27, 1865 directs in Par 5 that all abandoned or confiscable property in the possession or under the control of the office of the Treasury Dept together with all [[strikethrough]] money [[/strikethrough]] books, papers, & money arising therefrom will be turned over to the authorized agent of the Freedmen's Bureau demanding the same. Under this order Maj. Nott should turn over to you all lands, houses, tenements, or moneys arising from the same, taking therefor your receipts.