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Office of The Intendent.
Greenville Ala
7th February, 1866.

General, 
On the organization of the Corporate Authorities of this town, on the 29th July, 1865, I suggested to them the necessity of setting apart the tax of ten dollars, "for free negroes, assessed under the law of 1852, as a special fund for the food, clothing, and burial expenses of destitute freedmen. This was done and it met the approval of Capt. Brown, then the Asst. Supt. B. of F. at this place. Subsequently Capt. Brown informed me, that it was your wish, that this tax should not be collected, and it has not been. I have had thrown on my hands, about Thirty cases of small pox, and have now under my care, twenty four negroes, wholly destitute, for whom as the Corporation, has, as yet, not collected one dollar of taxes, I have been compelled, for the interests of humanity, to provide for, in a House, medical attendance,