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Office Supt B.R.A and A.L

Mobile Ala Nov 21"1865
To whom this may concern this is to certify that Mathias B Osborne is duly appointed and author-ized to act as agent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned lands in and for the County of Clarke, State of Alabama. 
He will be obeyed and respected accordingly. He is authorized to enforce all the rules and regulations that are or may be here after es-tablished by the Bureau for the Government of freed labor. 
The military authorities are requested to aid him by every means in their power in the discharge of the duties of his Office.
(Signed) Gen. D. Robinson
Colonel Supt A.B, Dist of Mobile.
To M.C. Osborne
Acting Asst Supt
A.B. Clarke Co Ala
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