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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, August 9th 1899

Bvt. Maj. Genl. Wager Swayne,
Asst. Comr. Bur. R.F & A.L.
State of Alabama,
Montgomery, Ala.

General, 
I am directed by Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard, Comm 10, to request that you will please instruct such officers under you who forward claims to this office, to send with the papers in the claim, or claims, a letter of transmittal giving the name, company and regiment, of the name, rating and name of vessel, as the case may be, of the person on whose account the claim is made.
Strict compliance with this requirement is essential to the proper conduct of the business of this office, and will ensure a prompt acknowledgement of the receipt of papers
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