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E & M 118 D of A 1867
Head Quarters Dist of Alabama
Montgomery Ala May 4" 1867
Respectfully referred to Bvt Lt. Col. E. M. K. Hudson, Commanding Post of Mobile. It is an established principle of common law that every government is bound to protect the possession of property purchased from itself. Recourse by parties claiming under adverse title must be against the government, and not against the purchaser. If the within complaint be true, the proceedings in the State Courts must be discontinued, and the night of the purchaser to undisturbed possession respected by all parties
Wager Swayne
Major General

Hd Quarters Post of Mobile
Mobile, Ala. May 8" 1867
Respectfully referred to the Asst. Commissioner of the Freedmans Bureau at Mobile, Ala. Bvt. Major Tracy 15 Infy who will report all the action of the Bureau, from the beginning on the subject of this lesser.

O.L. Shepherd 
Colonel 15 Infantry
Comdg Post.
E & M. B. 409.
RGE.

Endorsement Contained.