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Mayors Office
City of Mobile, July 3d 1866.

General,
I think I understood you about the filling the ditches & levelling the fortifications surrounding this place, but the matter is too important, to justify my acting under the possibility of a doubt.

My understanding of your instructions I will briefly state. Sell all the material in magazines, bombproofs &c & credit you with the amount. Contract for filling ditches, taking lowest bid after due notice published & debit you with the cost. Deduct amount from Sale of Material, and the balance of Cost of levelling, you will pay.

Please inform me, at your earliest convenience, if I correctly state your position. Any suggestions tending to facilitate the work, I shall be pleased to receive from you.

Very respectfully yours &c &c
J. M. Withers.

Major Genl W. Swayne
Comdg &c &c
Montgomery Ala