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Approved.... By Command of BVT. MAJ. GEN'L O.O. HOWARD COMMISSIONER WAR DEPARTMENT Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, Washington D.C. July 24th, 1869. Bt. Lt. Col. JM Brown D.O. &c Washington D.C. Colonel Will you please furnish for the use of this office a Stamp & Frames similar to the one in use in your office by which enclosed impression was made. Ribbon to be of same color of [[?print]] By command of Bvt Maj Genl O O Howard Commr Henry M. Whittelsey CQM BRF&AL