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Freedmen and some twenty (20.) or more sick. 
The Sub. Comm'r had provided a physician to meet the necessity promising to pay whatever he and I might agree upon. I found him competent and contracted with him to attend the dependent as required by the Sub. Com'r at fifty-dollars ($50.00) per month. I am supposing that it could require about one half of his time. Since that he reports that more of his time is necessary and asks that his compensation be increased, which request I suppose is just, but nothing definite has been done. 
At Lauderdale Springs we formed a gratuity of hospital property that had been surrendered to the good by the confederates. Gen. Canby had ordered it turned over to the Med Purveyor at Mobile
By representing the matter to Gen'l Osterhaus we procured an order for the property and it is now in use in our hospital in Meridian.
At Columbus and Macon we found need for medical officers but were unable to supply them.  The same is true of several other points in the State. At Grenada, the Sub Commissioner