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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF DISBURSING OFFICER,
Washington, D.C.,  , 1869.

all over $3.20 is taxable, and amount of tax should be deducted.

In paying vouchers for services all over $83.33 a month is taxed 5 per cent, which tax is deducted on the face of the voucher as shown in form for your pay.

I enclose you a small supply of blanks & will send more soon. The blanks to be used in paying rent for School Houses are so simple, you will doubtless have no trouble on this score. These will also be certified to by you and receipted by the party of whom the building is rented. If a society owns the house & the voucher is made in favor of the same; it will be necessary that a certificate signed by the President and Sec'y (or proper officers) showing that, so and so, is authorized to receive & receipt for said Association or society, be forwarded to this office for file, you keeping a copy of the same; any that you add