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Office Sup't R., F. & A. L.,
Sub-District Huntsville,
Huntsville, Ala., Jany 25th 1866

Genl Swayne
I enclose this letter to you that you may have the fact more forcibly impressed on your mind that it is absolutely necessary to have a Commissioned officer in each county in this Dist. I find that every advantage is taken of the ignorance of the Freedmen and that they cannot get Justice other than what they get from the military and I know from what I have already seen that Civil agents are detered from fear from administering Justice to Freedmen, this is only one of many letters of the same purport received by me daily, where I have a military agent I have no trouble. I have this day shipped to the different counties in this Dist. the following agrigate number of pounds of different articles of commissary stores to the agents of the Bureau and Judges of Probate, requesting them to coopperate in the distribution of the same to destitutes of their respective counties in the ratio agreed upon by myself and Mr Crookshank  Bacon 10170 lbs Hard Bread 40660 lbs Soap 1202 lbs Candles 365 lbs Sugar 2386 lbs Salt 846 lbs Coffee 620 lbs Vinegar 4 Bbls Hominy 1100 lbs Pork 31350 lbs Beans 3762 lbs. I have furnished this Co. from this place and have three more counties yet to supply which will be 

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