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[[preprinted]] Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Headquarters Ass't Commissioner, District Columbia, Washington, ^[[February 20th]] 186^[[8]]. [[/preprinted]] Circular Letter: Hereafter no contracts for supplies, services or labor or of any other kind will be made in this District except by the regularly appointed Disbursing Officer on approval of the Asst. Commissioner; and no payments will be made on such contracts except upon the written approval of the Assistant Commissioner. By order of the Assistant Commissioner [[signature]] Stuart Eldridge [[/signature]] A.A.A. General. Rev. John Kimball. Supt of Education.