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Mobile, Ala
Jan 5/67

Major General Swayne 
Asst Commr Freedmens Bureau
Montgomery 
Alabama

Mr dear General
Yours of the 26" Decr/66 is at hand. It has been next to impossible, until now, to acknowledge its receipt

1st The Application of Pierce

For the appointment of Wm E Clark as a Commissioner under the Civil Rights Bill will be granted. Your own endorsement is the only voucher I need. By the way, you were to make out a list of reliable persons for appointment as Commissioners, and send it to me. This you should do. The Circuit Court makes the appointments, and it meets here on the first Monday of February next. I have no power over the subject as District Judge. 

2nd as to the Ships. 

These are vexata quaestio. I think it was a mistake

Transcription Notes:
removed Archives stamp vexata quaestio = vexed question