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War Department, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington, August 24, 1865 To the Assistant Commissioners Bureau of Refugee Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Reports have been received that Officers of this Bureau have taken into their possession personal property abandoned by disloyal owners. The only species of abandoned property on which this Bureau can legally exercise what is abandoned real property - houses, lots, lands, &c as with the rents and profits accruing from there. In all cases where personal property has been secured it should be returned to the Treasury Department on other authority from which it was obtained. By order of Maj Genl O O Howard Commissioner Wm Fowler Ass't Sect'y Mil Asst. Comr. Ala.
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