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Quartermasters General Office Washington & Co December 21 1865 [[left margin]] A new copy R Brinkerhoff Col Depot QM [[/left margin]] Col. R Brinkerhoff Depot. Q M Cincinnati Ohio Colonel. Your letter of the 15th instant enclosing a requisition on your depot for sewing materials &c, for issue to Freedmen, has been received. In reply you are respectfully informed that the articles called for in the requisition cannot be issued under the authority of General Orders No 147 current Series, unless specially authorized by the Secretary of War The requisition has been referred to Maj Genl Howard, Com Bureau of R F and A L, with an endorsement to the above effect. over