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N.B. I add that at least 1/4 of the stock in hand of Planters in Lowndes Co is what is in called "picked up". If this is to be taken from the plantation & turned over to the negroes now, it will be most disastrous. At first, the Bureau made regulations, & submitted them for approval to the Military. Now it makes them & acts on them til they are disapproved. In the mean time the planter suffers. J.B.