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Office Assistant Superintendent,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Talladega, Ala, Nov. 7th 1866.

Maj. O. D. Kinsman
Superintendent &c
Montgomery Ala.

Major,

I have the honor to state that I am unable to make out the Monthly Report of rations issued to Freedmen for October.  No rations were issued to whites during the month of October.  No account has been kept of the number of rations received and issued and in fact there is nothing to show that any had been issued.

Rations were received from Selma on the 3rd inst. and yesterday I issued from them. the flour was all lumps some so large and so hard as to be almost impossible to break them.  I have no standard to go by in the issue of rations and heretofore they have been issued so that they would last the month without regard to any precise amount.

The rations received last week were eight (8) barrels of flour, five (5) barrels of pork, one (1) barrel about two thirds full of beans and a small box containing