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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington D.C., January 4th, 1868.

Brvt. Major Gen. Wager Swayne,
Asst. Commissioner,
Montgomery, Ala.

General, 
I am directed by the Commissioner to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th ulto. regarding the indebtedness to teachers.

The Commissioner approves of your plan for payment, and directs that you take up as Refugees and Freedsmen's fund the whole of the $7.000. referred to, pay the teachers, and account properly for the balance to the Chf. Disbg Officer at this Office.

By order of 
Major Genl. O. O. Howard 
E. Whittlesey
A.A.A. Genl.

Transcription Notes:
There is a seal on the left of the document.