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WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, OFFICE CHIEF DISBURSING OFFICER, Washington, D.C., September 20th, 1869. Joseph Welch Supt Ed Austin Texas Sir Enclosed please find my check No 6936, on Asst Treas at New York in favor of F. Flake to pay amount of his voucher for activating $22. 0/100 Very Respectfully Geo W Balloch Bvt Brig Genl & Chf. D.O. per B.