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Office of Assist Superintendent 
Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Greenville. Ala.
Sept'r 23d 1865

Colonel C. Cadle Jr
A.A.G.

Colonel.-
I have the honor to transmit the following: My weekly letter.
During the past week, the number of applicants for the charity of the Government have increased in Number, and, I am informed by the statistics, that over Eight hundred families, in this County, were subsisted by charity, before our occupation. The increase therefore, is not to be wondered at, and, the most rigid examination, under Oath, I find to be the only way to prevent imposition. When Parties own Land, or other Property, or, have Relatives who can assist them, I refuse to issue, and only to those who can get no work to do, and who would suffer, or starve, if they did not get assistance from the Government.
I find the Magistrate, who live even a short distance from here, ignorant of the order of General Swayne, in regards to accepting the appointment tendered them.