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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[in seal]] WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS, Washington, August 22, 1866. CIRCULAR, No. 10. In accordance with the instructions of the Secretary of War, it is ordered, that, on and after the 1st day of October next, the issue of rations be discontinued, except to the sick in regularly organized hospitals, and to the orphan asylums for refugees and freedmen, already existing, and that the State officials, who may be responsible for the care of the poor, be carefully notified of this order, so that they may assume the charge of such indigent refugees and freedmen as are nor embraced in the above exceptions. O. O. HOWARD, Major General, Commissioner OFFICIAL: G. O. Kinmay Assistant Adjutant General.