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Hd Qrs Dist of Alabama Montgomery Alabama 209 June 19th 1867 Swayne Wager Maj Genl & Asst Comr Requests authority of Maj Genl O.O. Howard to purchase for use of Bureau at Printing Press. Recd" June 22/ 67 209 6-67 E.B. 1003/67 War Department, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Office of Chief Quartermaster, Washington, June 10 1867 Respectfully returned to Maj Genl Wager Swayne, Asst. Commr B.R.F.& A.L. for Alabama. The purchase of the printing press and type within referred to at a cast delivered not to exceed ($500) five hundred dollars is hereby authorized. If the old press is unserviceable and not required for further use and is Bureau property application for authority to sell the same should be made to the commissioner by command of Maj Genl O O Howard, Commr Henry M Whittlesey Bvt Brig Genl C.Q.M. BRF& AL