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has in some instances been accompanied with injustice, but in most part I have been able to secure change of instructions, and redress.

At our home depot, in the city, I have given up the attempt to procure framing timber for barracks, and have begun to erect huts, 12 x 20 feet, containing two rooms, and admitting of a chimney for winter. They may be rendered quite comfortable. We lack only nails, to continue their erection indefinitely. Please inform me if I can obtain them by requisition from Montgomery or must but them here. We need three kegs sixpennies and two kegs twelvepennies.

I have frequent applications to bind out children until majority. It is respectfully suggested that the regulations and methods established by the Bureau in Mississippi, be adopted to save the time necessary to set in operation an original system of indenture.

Capt. Lott, commanding post at Marion, was at my office yesterday, and reported forty to fifty dependent Freedmen in some buildings connected with Howard College, which he wished vacated and the negroes removed. There have