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War Department
Bureau of R.F. and A.L.
Washington  August 17, 1867

Respectfully returned to the Asst Comr of Ala.
Asst Commissioners have no authority to meet this class of expenditure.  The orders of the Commissioner upon this subject referred to the payment of rent

By Order of
Major General OO Howard
A.P. Ketchum
A.A.A. Genl.

E.B. 449, Vol. 3.

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