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sale or disposition of such property, which have not been finally paid into the Treasury of the United States.
[Signed] ANDREW JOHN SON, President.
Official:[Signed] E.D. TOWNSEND, Asst. Adj. Gen.
Adjutant General's Office, November 11th, 1865.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA, 
MOBILE,ALA.,December 10th, 1865.

General Orders,
No. 64.        
In accordance with the Executive Order bearing date, November 11th, 1865, it is ordered that all military agents of the Government in this Department, immediately transfer to the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for Alabama, the use and custody of all real estate, buildings or other property seized or held by them as belonging to the late rebel government, together with such funds as may arise or have arisen from the rent, sale or disposition of such property, which have not been finally paid into the Treasury of the United States.
By order of Brevet Major Gen. CHARLES R. WOOD.
[Signed]  FRED. H. WILSON, Asst. Adj. Gen.
Official:[Signed] FRED. H. WILSON, Asst. Adj. Gen.

Specification 4th-In this, that Brevet Major James Curtis, Captain 15th U.S. Infantry, being in command at Fort Gaines, Ala, did permit a sum of money amounting to about thirty-six dollars($36), said to be the proceeds of the sale of a quantity of iron, to-wit, about five(5) tons of scrap iron and one (1) steam boiler, which iron and boiler were the property of the United States, or had been captured from or abandoned by the late rebel government, to be misapplied, by turning said funds over to companies stationed at Fort Gaines, Ala., as company tunds. This at Fort Gaines, on or about the 10th day of July,1866, in violation of the following orders,viz:

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, WASHINGTON CITY, November 11th, 1865.
Ordered, That the civil and military agents of the Government transfer to the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for Alabama, the use and custody of all real estate, buildings or other property seized or held by them in that State, as belonging to the late rebel government, together with all such funds as may arise or have arisen from rent,