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the District of Montgomery, He will report to CW Buckley Supt of Education, for the State of Alabama, and will be governed by such instructions as he may receive from him. 
By Order of 
Bvt Major Gen Wager Swayne
O.D. Kinsman
Asst Adj Gen

Official
A.A. Genl


Office Asst Commissioner
B.R.F. and A.L.
Montgomery Ala  May 7th 1866

Circular No 2
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In pursuance of a request from the Chief Q. M. Dept. of Ala. "it is directed that all officers and agents of the Bureau in this State prepare and forward to this office without delay a list of all Union Soldiers interred within the limit of their respective jurisdictions.  Date of decease, name, rank, Company, and regiment, must be given, where it is possible, with information as to the condition of graves, upon whose property located and any proposition the owner may wish to make as to his land used therefor.
By order of 
Bvt Major Genl Wager Swayne
A.A. General.


Office Asst Commissioner
B.R.F. and A.L.
Montgomery Ala.  May 8th 1866

Special Order No 76
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A board of Survey is hereby convened to examine into the condition of, and fix, the responsibility for losses in two invoices of Medical and Hospital Stores for which


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A.A. Surgeon Charles H Hood, U.S.A. in charge Freedmen's Hospital Selma Ala, is responsible.
Detail to compose the board, there being but one officer present beside the one responsible.
Brevet Capt Joseph Groves V.R.C.
By order of 
Brevet Major Genl Wager Swayne
Asst Adjt General


Office Asst Commissioner
B.R.F. and A.L.
Montgomery Ala.  May 9th/66

Special Orders No 77
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Capt A.C. Arthur, Commissary of Subsistence, will proceed to Mobile, Ala on business connected with his Department.
He will return as soon as practicable.
By order of 
Bvt Maj Genl Wager Swayne
A.A. General


Office Asst Commissioner
B.R.F.& A.L.
Montgomery Ala  May 10th 1866

Special Orders No. 78

I.  Lieut Col G.W. Washburn, Veteran Reserve Corps, is hereby released from duty as Supt Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c at Mobile Ala, and will proceed to his place of residence, at New Haven Conn, reporting from there by letter to Maj Gen O.O. Howard Commsr B.R.F.& A.L.
The Asst Commissioner requests that the wounds received by Col