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HEADQUARTERS, THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT,
(Department of Georgia, Florida and Alabama.)
Office of Assistant Adjutant General,
Atlanta, Ga., April 16 1868.

Bvt Brig. Gen. O. L. Shepherd U.S. Army
Asst. Commissioner of R.F. & A.L. for Alabama

General:
The application of Bvt Brig. Gen. Hayden USA, late Asst. Commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the state of Alabama, under date of March 16' 1868, addressed to the Honorable Secretary of War, for authority to pay extra duty pay to enlisted men detailed as clerks in that Bureau in the state of Alabama, has been returned to these Head Quarters with the following endorsement therein:-
"Adjutant Generals Office
Washington D.C. April 12 1868 + + no deviation from existing regulations on this subject can be made by this