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three hundred and ninety three (393) orphans
apprenticed.

Alabama
Intelligence
Offices

On the 18th inst, in
reply to a communication from Brevet Col.
Woodhul, General Swayne, Asst Comm'r, states
that in three places in the State, there are in
operation Intelligence Offices or their equivalents
that every agent of the Bureau has been instruct
to furnish aid in procuring Employment for
freedmen; and that the Asst Superintendent
in Montgomery is furnishing at the rate of
fifty per day to those who need them and
are responsible parties

South Carolina
Gen Saxton
forwards commu
nication in regard
to Mr. Middleton's
Claim

On the 15th. inst.
General Saxton, Asst Comm'r, forwards com-
munication of Capt James P. Low. A.Q.M.
with its enclosure being a letter from Mr.
R.N. Gourdin in which the later withdraws
from the Board ordered for the adjustment
of Mr. Middleton's claim.

Capt. Low forwards Mr. Gourdin's letter to
Gen. Saxton without other remark than
that Mr. Gourdin registered three officers proposed
by himself, and believed to be unbiased
and unprejudiced, and that he rejected
General Sickles and Major Roy, nomina-
ted by Mr Gourdin; the first on the ground
of disproportioned rank, and the second be-
cause so ordered by the Asst Commissioner
Mr Gourdin asserts it is impracticable to organ-
ize a board of referees to which Mr. Middle-

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