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Greenville, Ala.
7' September, 1866.

Captain J.F. McGogy,
Asst. Supt. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and A.L. at Greenville, Ala.

Dear Sir,

I have learned that it is proposed to turn over the colony of Freedmen to the Court of County Commissioners.

I would not be faithful to the confidence you have reposed in me, were I not to express to you my opinion that such an arrangement will not be the most favorable.  I have watched for some years, the progress of the pauper system in Alabama, a system which even in England, it has taken centuries to perfect, and where even under the severest scrutiny, the greatest injustice and wrong has been perpetrated. The system of leaving the care of the poor to commissioners, who are elected for the whole County, and, who only meet three or four times a year, renders that supervision and watchfulness which is so necessary to the care of the poor and dependent, impossible.  The consequence is, that the Agents in proportion to their distance from the principals, are careless and indifferent.

I advise that a place be procured so near the office, that the Assistant Superintendant