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which you will see there, whereby the control of the lands and tenements is given up, but the bricks properly included under the designation of improvements. Whether in ruins or otherwise, he declines to give. Maj. Knott was very wroth at this decision and indulged in personal abuse. He has been forcing rent from colored people occupying confiscable houses, the property of citizens. 
The property given into the control of the Bureau, consists of a tract of land, containing about 8 acres instead of twenty, upon which there are six buildings formerly confederate property. Two of them are two story dwelling houses roughly finished. One is a story and a half house, quite well finished but unpainted. The other are rough board houses built for negroes. One has four rooms, the other three. The sixth building was probably used for a carriage house or some such purpose. 
The tract of land so far as unoccupied by these buildings has been divided into quarter acre lots, upon which I have allowed respectable colored families to build houses, giving preference to those who have been residents of Selma, and who are able to put a decent dwelling upon it. I have given these the promise of