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6 July 1870
One of the Assistant Marshals, in a letter to Capt. S.P.Evans, United States Mashall for the Eastern Division of Tennessee, writes as follows: "I find, Sir, that the instructions, although very clear and explicit, do not reach every particular. -- The name of every person is required. I have already found a dozen children without names over one and two years old, I have, however, remedied this by asserting that the government demands that all children born prior to the first day of June 1870, should be named at once, when the Bible is immediatly called for and the proper entries made; but have been somewhat puzzled in the following instance: I found a man living with two wives-- one as lawful as the other: both claim him as their husband, both have children, and both occupy the same position in domestic relations. Now, which one shall I place at the head of the family." Knoxville Chronicle.
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