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Freedmens Bureau
Mobile Sept 15th 1865

Brig Genl Wager Swayne
Sir
The unusual Amount of business at this office consequent on consolidating the Department of white destitute Citizens, with my other duties at a time when I was deprived the service of experienced employees - and the frequency which my details have been relieved - has precluded the possibility of performing the various and multiplier services to my own
I have hired no Clerk - unfortunately I could detail none competent to do business - and a plain Scribe as Copyist was my only assistant - the numerous complaints which I could no longer refer to a Court where I was convinced justice was denied the Freedmen - and the comparitively few cases which Justice Has abjudicated for this Bureau tendered it imperatively necessary