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186 W.N. Felt C.S. who is commissary of this Bureau in addition to which he performs the duties of Post commissary in this City I am General Very respectfully Your obedient servant (Sigd) O Brown Col and Asst Comr. official James A Bates AAAG (74 1st Vol) 21" March Howard Maj Genl O.O. Commissioner General I have the honor to forward herewith a personal letter, received from my Inspector, in relation to matter in the 9th Dist. I would respectfully ask whether Captain Wilders resignation has been accepted and whether an officer can be sent soon to relieve him of his property. I am General Very respectfully Your obedient servant Sigd. O Brown Col and Asst Comr. official James A Bates AAAG One enclosure (75 1st Vol) 21" March Howard Maj Genl O.O. Commissioner General I am informed that the authorities of Charles City County have assessed a pole tax of three dollars ($3.00) on all male persons over twenty one years of age, in addition to this the state imposes a a pole tax of twenty eight cents I have instructed all officers of the Bureau to investigate the subject of taxation in the different counties, and report I think it is not unreasonable to suppose that the exorbitant taxation may be resorted to for the purpose of making the Freedmen support their own poor - It is certainly taxation without representation. I would respectfully ask for authority to instruct the Freedmen not to pay county taxes until I have time to investigate the subject. I enclose herewith copy of a Genl order to Supts 187 on the subject I am General Very respectfully Your obedient servant (Sigd) O Brown Col and Asst Comr. official James A Bates AAAG (76 1st Vol) 22 March Howard Maj Genl O.O. Commission General I have the honor to forward herewith a copy of a letter from D. Rhoads in relation to the Appomattox affair - I have under the circumstances decreed to stop all proceedings in the case I am General Very respectfully Your obedient servant (Sigd) O Brown Col and Asst Comr. official James A Bates AAAG One enclosure (77 1st Vol) 22. March Howard Maj Genl O.O. Commissioner General I have the honor to enclose Report of Lands for the month of February 1866 I am General Very respectfully Your obedient servant (Sigd) O Brown Col. and Asst Comr official James A Bates AAAG One enclosure (78 1st Vol) 23r March Howard Maj Genl O.O. Commissioner General I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of communication dated 21 instant enclosing unexpected power of attorney for the collection of U.S. bounty claimed by Sergt J.H. Quarles 1"USCC, and requiring that it be executed and
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