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

to the certificate "was necessary for the public service". and that _____ is authorized to receive & receipt for the same_
You will also forward monthly a consolidated report of Persons & articles [[?]] (see Form 2 Army Regulations)
In the forms filled out I have put in amounts, simply to show how I want the voucher when forwarded for payment
Yours Respy
Geo M Balloch
Bvt. Brig. Genl & Chf. D.O.