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(No. 39.)
Post Office Department,
CONTRACT OFFICE,
Washington, August 24th, 1869.

Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 23rd instant I hereby certify that "the distance by the shortest mail routes" between the undernamed places is as follows:

From Baltimore, Md. to Hagerstown, Md.  One Hundred and Two (102) miles.

Respectfully
W L Nicholson
Topographer to P. O. Dept.
for Second Ass't Postmaster Gen'l

Brevet Major J.M. Brown
Disbursing Officer
Freedmen's Bureau
Washington D.C.