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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