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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER,
Washington D.C., June 12th, 1869.

Bvt Lt Col J.M. Brown
D.O. &c.

Colonel
You will please furnish (and cause to be put down) for the room to be occupied by the female clerks employed in the Claim Division, a carpet similar in pattern and quality to the one on the floor of the room occupied by the Chief of said Division.

By command of
Bvt Maj Genl O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Henry M Whittelsey
C Q M. B R F & A L.