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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 7th 1868.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O.L. Shepherd,
Asst. Commr. , Alabama 

General,
Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, Commissioner, instructs me to call your attention to Special Orders No. 28, March 5th 1868, from these Headquarters. Please see to it that your Disbursing Officer takes up on his Returns every building constructed by him under the two heads of "School Buildings" and "Asylums" 

This does not include repairs. 

The Commissioner also desires a special Report of the Buildings so constructed, with an estimate so far as practicable of the cost of such constructions. 

Very respectfully
E. Whittlesey 
Actg. Asst. Adjt. General