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C.B.R. W.E.C Treasury Department August 2nd, 1866 Sir: In reply to your letter of this date, authority is hereby granted you to transfer the marine patients now in the marine hospital at Mobile, Ala. in charge of the military authorities, to the city hospital at that place, provided that they "shall be as well cared for as at present, and without increased expense." [[Round seal] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES] I am, very respectfully B McCulloch Secretary of the Treasury Major Genl. Wager Swayne Washington, D.C.