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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, June 22 1866.

Bvt. Maj. Genl. Wager Swayne,
Asst. Com'r. B.R.F. & A.L.
State of Alabama,
Montgomery, Ala.

General,

I have the honor to inform you, that the 2d Auditor of the Treasury has decided that in all cases when fathers, who have been slaves make claim for increase of pay or bounty due their deceased sons, evidence is required, showing whether the Father and Brother were slaves of the same master and lived upon the same plantation. If they lived upon different plantations and were slaves of different masters, a claim in favor of the father will increase be allowed, and should be made out
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