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To Genl Wage Swayne Asst Comr Bureau of Refugees &c at Montgomery Ala The undersigned Intendant & Council of the town of Tuskegee Macon County Ala having accepted office under the proclamation of Hon Lewis E Parsons Provl Govr of the state of Alabama desire hereby, to make known to you that we have assumed jurisdiction under General Order No 7 from your office and will carry out the intentions therein contained as far as & to the full extent of the same. In testimony whereof we here unto set our hands this 9th day of September AD 1865 John Swanson Int J L Adams } A A Barton } W C McIver } Councilmen. J C Smith } Thos B Jones Clerk