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Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Selma Dec. 2d 1865

C. Cadle Jr.
Bvt. Col & A.A.G.
Colonel: I have the honor to forward monthly report:
The office is left utterly without assistance. Lieut Morgan and myself being the only persons to attend to business. If a favorable answer comes from Mobile, with regard to the retention of the 12th Iowa [[view?]], I hope you will give us the benefit of it at the earliest moment. The civilian clerks are both discharged. I wish to ask permission from Gen. Swayne to {withold} retain fifty or sixty thousand bricks, from the sale of gov't property-here, for the use of parties among freedmen, who cannot get bricks for chimneys, on account of prior engagement of all that are made, by the large builders.
I wish instructions in regard to cases where employers withold wages from laborers, justly due, and having means to pay them. Of course, the crop is responsible for the wages, but how shall I