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(Maj Nott has no right to dispossess Freedmen of their Government tenements. That right rests in you only as agent of this Bureau.) He should at once transfer any of this kind of property to you and relinquish all control of it. The Dept at Washington has been notified of his action. Please cause to be made at once lists of all such property giving a full description of it and forward the same to this office

Very respectfully,
Your obt servt
C Cadle Jr
Bvt Col & A. A. G.


Sept 23rd 1865

Respectfully returned, with the information that the property referred to is neither abandoned or confiscated, but captured property, once owned by the so-called Confederacy.

R. V. Montague jr
Sup Spec Agt of
Capt property

Selma Ala