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Mobile August 11/65
To Brig Genl Wage Swayne
Assist Commissioner Bureau
Refugees. Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.

Dear Sir
I see your General Order No. 7 published in this morning's Advertiser & Register, very kindly designates "the judicial officers and Magistrates appointed by the Provisional Governor of Alabama," as the Agents of the Freedmens Bureau for the administration of Justice in the cases of all freedmen in this county or District, and you desire each officer assuring jurisdiction in above mentioned cases, to signify to you his acceptance of the same, therefore I hereby notify you respectfully, that I accept your appointment in the aforesaid cases, and in the connection permit me to add that I think it but common justice that the colored people should have