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Office Superintendent, District of Selma,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
SELMA, ALA., October 9th 1866

Lieut J. F. Conyngham
Asst. Adj. General
Sub Dist. of Alabama,

Lieutenant:  I have the honor to report that there are in and near Selma, some Two Hundred and Fifty to Three Hundred persons, mostly very aged, and all without exception so worn out, crippled, paralytic or sickly, as to be incapable of earning any support for themselves; the greater part of these are without any suitable shelter for the coming winter, or are staying by sufferance on the plantations of former owners, who permit it only on condition that they furnish their own clothing and subsistence. I have issued rations to this class, since the promulgation of Circular No. 10, supposing that it was the intention of the Asst. Commissioner to organize a colony at this place, and believing them all to be of the class that compose the Colonies.
I have the honor to ask what disposition 

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