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Office Asst. Supt. Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Land
Demopolis Ala Oct 25th 65

Sir,

I have the honor of addressing you for the purpose of gaining some information in regard to the policy to be adopted with reference to home colnys for next year. Wheather we will be authorized to Lease Lands for the purpose &c or also to state that I have an opportunity of disposing of the Stock Agricultural implements provided on any Colony on the most favorable terms provided I can give possession by the first of 
December. Taking this in connection with the fact that we are at a most inconvenient distance from Head Quarters (Twenty three miles) I would respectfully but urgently suggest the propriety of securing a place nearer our "Base" at the earliest practicable  moment. As I have some experience in the workings of the Colony System it may not be inappropriate