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256 WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, Washington, D. C., Nov. 30th 1868 Bt Lieut. Col. J. M. Brown. D. O. &c Washington D. C. Colonel:- It is understood that a part of the rooms at Howard University to be occupied by this Bureau are ready except that it will be necessary to have them swept and washed. You will please cause them to be cleaned as soon as practicable and the others as soon as they may be ready for occupancy. By Command of Maj Gen'l O O Howard Commissioner Henry M Whittelsey Chief Quartermaster Bu. R. F & A. L.