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War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Chief Quartermaster,
Washington, Feby 10th 1870

Mr R.M. Manly
Supt. Ed. BRF & AL.
Richmond, Va

Sir,
Herewith enclosed is respectfully transmitted Special Orders No 24 c.s. from this office, directing the sale at auction after due public notice of the buildings owned by the Bureau and borne on your return, situated at Farmville, Va. Due notice is at least thirty days notice by advertisement published on six (6) consecutive days (and no more), in a newspaper authorized to publish advertisements of the War Department. The only authorized papers in the State of Virginia are the 'State Journal' of Richmond and the 'Lynchburg Press' of Lynchburg. As you are presumed to be familiar with the regulations of the War Dept. relative to official advertising it is not deemed necessary to remind you that all advertisements must be reported by the officer ordering the same, to the Secretary of War (see par.1. of the advertising Regulation) when first published. If Mr Manly has not a copy of these regulations