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Office Supt. B.R.F.andA.L. Mobile Ala Jan'y 22nd 1866 Brevet Colonel C. Cadle A.A. General &c Colonel: I learn from Mayor Withers that he is to go to day in Montgomery to have an interview with the General in advance to matters connected with the Bureau in this Dist. I would respectfully call the attention of the General to an ordinance recently passed by the Common Council of this city which requires all persons owning Hacks, cabs or drays to give a bond in the Sum of five hundred dollars before they can obtain a license to run the Same. This ordinance is a very oppressive one upon the Freedmen, many of whom are unable to give the Bond as it is required that the bondsman shall be a property owner