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[[LB65?]]
Office Bureau R. F. & AL.
Greenville, Ala. Sept. 11th 1866.

Lieut.
General Swayne,
directed me to have an interview with the County Commissioners; with a view to turn over to said Commissioners the Colony at Garland by the 1st of October. The Commissioners live quite a distance in the country, and do not meet very frequent. 
I called upon the Judge of Probate in reference to this matter, the Judge promised me that he would be able to assume the care of said Colony by the 1st of October, but by a letter that he had just received from Gov Patton [[strikethrough]] in which he [[/strikethrough]] the Judge understood that I would furnish the rations delivered here at Greenville sufficient to supply said Colony.
I am confident that the Judge of Probate and the County Commissioners have no sympathy for the destitute white people, much less for the Freedmen.
This Colony will come under the head of an established asylum, and if said Colony is to be fed