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(No. 39.) Post Office Department, Contract Office, Washington, Oct 10, 1867. Sir: In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, I hereby certify that "the distance [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] by the shortest mail routes" between the undernamed places [[strikethrough]] are [[/strikethrough]] is as follows: Leonardtown, Md. to Washington, D. C. Sixty (60) Miles. Respectfully &c., &c., W. L. Nicholson Topographer to P. O. Dept. for Second Assis't P. M. Gen'l. Major J. M. Brown Disbursing Officer Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c War Department