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Intendants Office,
Greenville Ala.
22d February, 1866.

[[crossed out]] Capt. [[/crossed out]]

T. W. Mostyn, Asst. Supt.
Bureau of Refugees & Freedmen & A. L.

Without any reflection upon the Probate Judges of the Interior Counties, I must say, in frankness, that their distance from this point will render it necessary to have so many agencies; and, such from my experience, has been the disposition to recommend persons indiscriminately, for Government aid; and so powerful are local and personal influences; that the farther the control of the subject of Rations removed from the Officers of Government, the less will the actually destitute receive; and the more will the Government be defrauded.
I base my suggestion on my knowledge of persons and places, when I advise that persons seeking aid send up to the Bureau an affidavit of their condition; and, that the Asst. Superintendent, submit them to some intelligent and impartial citizen at the point of delivery, for approval.
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