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This Department was not further advised on the subject until the receipt of copies of correspondence enclosed in General Swayne's letter of 24th ultimo addressed to your Bureau.

An order of which the enclosed is a copy, has this day been sent the Collector, and Genl Swayne so informed

I am very respectfully 
Wm E. Chandler
Asst Secretary of the Treasury

Major Genl O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Bureau, Freedmen &c 

Official Copy respectfully furnished for the information of Gen. Wager Swayne Asst Com'r 
A.P. Ketchum 
A.A.A General 

Bureau R F & A L
Washington Jan 31/67