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Bureau Freedmen
Selma Oct 23d 1865

C. Cadle Jr
Bvt [[strikethrough]] Lt [[/strikethrough]] Col. and A.A.G.

Colonel: On my return from Mobile, I received a telegram in which I am instructed to lease no more government plantations. The only one leased by me as yet, is the one situated near Selma for Dallas Co. But in these neighboring counties of Perry and Wilcox, both of them having a dense negro population, there is pressing need of facilities to dispose of those classes, referred to in Order No. 12, for whom it is there stated that Home Colonies would be provided.

Relying  upon the expressed intentions of the Bureau in that Order, I have promised individuals concerned with the classes above named to relieve them as soon as the home colonies were provided. Am I to understand that none will be provided, or that the matter is only delayed for a time.

Transcription Notes:
Alabama home colonies, not house colonies, are described in an online article of the Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama.