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Mobile 3rd Sept. 1865
Captain. W.A. Poillon
Asst Supt. Freedmen &c

Sir
A reply to the letter from Gen. Wager Swayne written to you and handed to me for perusal. I have to say that although my advice has usually been followed by the trustees, in matters connected with the Mobile Medical College. I have not individually the power to make any change in agreements entered into by them. The trustees are nearly all absent at this time and probably will not return for a month.
There is a misapprehension in the letter of Genl. Swayne, At the time of the agreement between Gen. C.C. Andrews and myself on the part of the trustees, nothing was said by either party about the cost of repairs. After going with one over the whole establishment and seeing its condition it was simply agreed between us that the building should be used for two years as a Freedmens schools (that is all the rooms not containing museums aparatus &c) on condition that the Bureau would repair the roof thoroughly, secure the windows (which had been crushed by the explosion) against wind and rain and hand it over, the establishment, to the trustees in good preservation