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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandonded Lands,
Washington. December 18, 1867.

[CIRCULAR LETTER.]

To _____________________
 Asst.-Commissioner, State of ______

 In view of the contemplated muster-out of officers of the volunteer force, and the reduction of the number of civilian angents on duty in this Bureau, you are requested to cause its property in the hands of said officers and agents to be transferred, as far as practicable without incurring great expense for transportation, to your Disbursing Officer, or to officers of the army reporting to you, or to such officers as will be retained in service after muster out.
 All Quartermaster Property and Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage pertaining to the Quartermaster's Department of the Army, held by the officers and agents above referred to, should at once be transferred to your Disbursing Officer who is a Quartermaster's agent, in order that when the same are no longer required for use, they may, upon orders from these headquarters, ne re-transferred to the Quartermaster's Department.
 Such Quartermaster Stores as the necessities of the service require should be left in the hands of officers other than the Disbursing Officer, should nevertheless be transferred as above suggested,and memorandum receipts be given by the officers retaining the property; and the rentention of the property, and the giving of the memorandum receipts by civilian agents, should be noted by the Disbursing Officer unpon his "Report of Persons and Articles hired," opposite the name of the agent retaining said property.
 Your attention is called to the sixth paragraph of Circular No. 24, current series.

 By order of Maj.-Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner.
 E. WHITTLESEY
  A.A. Adj.-Gen.
Official:
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A.A. Adj.-Gen.