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Quartermaster General's Office.
Washington D.C. November 16th 1867

Maj General O. O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau Freedmen &c
Washington DC.

General —
You are respectfully [[?]] that your communication of the 6th inst, requesting the [[procurement & transfer to the Freedmens Bureau of the buildings at Capital Street Barracks, Wisewell Barracks, and Campbell Hospital with a view of using them for building Hospital and tenements for the poor, and that this be [[?]] without charge, has been referred to this Office

There are 10 buildings connected with Capital Street Barracks — 25 at Campbell Hospital and 9 at Wisewell Barracks.

Through the object is a worthy one the Actg Q. M. General cannot under existing laws and 

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