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War Department
Washington City
December 22nd 1866.

Circular [[stamp]] NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Sir
The Secretary of War directs that you immediately give instructions to all the Officers and Agents of your Bureau who have public property under their charge to take the necessary precautions for preventing its destruction or damage by accidental fire and also to see by personal inspection that the apparatus for extinguishing fires of which they have control is in proper condition for effective use.

Very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Signed, Ed Shriver
Inspector General

To the
Commissioners
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen Abandoned Lands