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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, June 22, 1865.

CIRCULAR.
No. 6.
I. The attention of officers on duty in the the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, is particularly called to General Orders, No. 39, War Department A G O., June 19, 1866. publishing an Act. approved June 14. 1866. "to regulate and secure the safe keeping of public money entrusted to disbursing officers of the United States."
II. Disbursing Officers of this Bureau stationed "in places where there is no treasurer nor assistant treasurer of the United States" who deem it essential to the public interest that they be authorized to deposit the public money for which they are or may become responsible-or any portion thereof-"in any other public depository" or place of deposit, or to keep it in any other manner, will, on the receipt of this circular. report the facts and make application to thus Office, with a view for obtaining the authority necessary under the proviso to section 1, of said act. 
The following list of Assistant Treasurers and Depositaries is furnished from the Treasury Department for the government of all concerned
Treasurer, Assistants and Depositaries.
Treasurer of the United States.
Francis E. Spinner...Washington. District of Columbia.
Assistant Treasurers.
T. P. Chandler...Boston, Massachusetts.
H. H. Van Dyek...New York, N. Y.
N. B. Browne...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
A. G. Edwards...St. Louis, Missouri.
B. C. Pressley...Charleston, South Carolina.
T. P. May...New Orleans, Louisiana.
D. W. Cheesman...San Francisco, California.
G. W. Lane...Denver City, Colorado.
United States Depositaries 
C. D. Norton...Buffalo, New York.
E. H. Webster...Baltimore, Maryland.
Walter B. Seates...Chicago, Illinois.
R. H. Etephenson...Cincinnatti, Ohio.
W. D. Gallagher...Louisville, Kentucky. 
C. W. Batchelor...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
J. H. Stewart...St. Paul, Minnesota 
Henry Warren...Oregon City, Omaha Territory.
James L. Collins...Santa Fe, New Mexico.
J. Cushman...Olympia, Washington Territory.
John Kirkwood...Little Rock, Arkansas.
O. O. Howard,
Major General, Commissioner
Official:
O. D. Kinnmay
Assistant Adjutant General.
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