Miscellaneous Records
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 4: Subordinate Field Offices / 4.25: Selma (Subassistant Commissioner)
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content: 1856–69
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1900, File 4.25.11
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content: Archival materials
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content: Unbound miscellaneous records, 1856–69, are arranged by type of record. The series includes labor contracts (January 1866–March 1869), lists of Bureau stores received and transferred (June–September 1865), reports of registration of white and black voters (June–October 1867), and vouchers authorizing pay for services and supplies (August–December 1866). This series also includes memorandums on labor contract settlements (November 1866–February 1868), reports of cases tried (September 1866–July 1868), miscellaneous records on disbursements (February–November 1866), and certificates of destitution among freedmen (January–June 1867). In addition to the above–mentioned records, there are a copy of the last will of Lewis Tidwell, dated January 22, 1856; lists of confiscated lands; forms used by the Bureau; and specifications for carpentry work on a schoolhouse.