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Office Sub. Asst. Comr Bur of R.F.&A.L.
Sub. Dist. of Mobile
Mobile, Ala., Aug 20th 1867.

Respectfully returned with attention called to endorsement of Judge Bond and sworn statement of Mr. Hall.

My own opinion being that Mr. Hall is a very worth man, and that the children are much better off with him than with their mother, and fully believing Mr. Hall's statement which shows that the mother consented to his possession of the children, I have suspended action in the case & respectfully ask further instructions.

Geo. H. Tracy
Captain 15th Inf. Bvt. Maj. U.S.S.
Sub. Asst. Commr.

R Aug 22 '67