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259 WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER Washington, D:C., July 30th 1868 Bvt. Brig. Genl. O.L. Shepherd, USA. Asst. Commr BRF&AL. Montgomery, Ala. General, Referring to your communication of 24th instant recommending that the allowance of one horse to each Sub Assistant Commissioner, as now provided by the Bureau Officers' Manual, be discontinued in the State of Alabama, in the discretion of the Assistant Commissioner, You are respectfully informed that the Commissioner directs that such issues be limited, hereafter, to the actual necessities of the public service, of which the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama will be the judge. By command of Maj. Genl. O O Howard Commissioner Henry M Whittlesey CQM. BRFAL