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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