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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office Chief Quartermaster,
Washington, D.C. July 12th, 1869.

Bt. Lt. Col. JM Brown
D.O. &c
Washington D.C.

Colonel,

You will please cause four (4) partitions to be put under the roofs of the four rows of tenements at Lincoln Depot, the foundations to be colored, and the fences and outbuilding to be whitewashed.  You will also please cause the well to be bricked up and a pump placed in the same

By command of Bt. Maj Genl O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Henry M Whittelsey
CQM. BRFAL