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War Department,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Washington, February 5, 1868.

Circular Letter
Assistant Commissioner of this Bureau will direct their Disbursing Officers to turn over all funds in their possession belonging to the Refugees and Freedmens Fund, to the Chief Disbursing Officer of this Bureau at their Head Quarters, where they may have been ordered by the Commissioner to expense the same for some special purpose.
By order of
Major General O.O. Howard
E. Whittlesey
Actg. Ass't Adjt Gen'l

Bvt. Brig. Genl. Julius Hayden
Asst. Commissioner
Montgomery Ala.