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the Colony. The Board recommends that he be authorized to have such buildings erected. He proposes also on the 1st  of March next, to discharge the A.A. Surgeon now on duty on the eastern shore Mobile Bay. Further reduction in this Department is not deemed advisable. 
It is further recommended that instructions be issued to the Superintendants of the several Colonies enjoining great strictness in the admission, and retention of persons at their colonies, directing them not to admit or retain any people, who are not in the strictest sense of the term, incapacitated from supporting themselves, through extreme youth, extreme age or physical infirmity. 
It is recommended also that all accounts be hereafter sent through and approved by the Superintendents of Stations and the Chief of the Department to which such accounts belong.
It is further recommended that the Bureau Quartermaster at this place be relieved from the duties of Post Quartermaster, as the present arrangement tends to a conflict of powers and interruption of business. 
Very Respectfully Your obt Srvt
Edwin Beecher
Bvt Lieut Col & Add Paymaster U.S.A.
Charles J. Kipp
Bvt Lt Col & Surgeon US Vols
Geo F. Browning
Bvt Maj USV 1st Lieut V.R.C.
G.D. Kinsman
Superintendent