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Circular Letter
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, D. C., October 7th 1868

Bvt. Lt. Col. Edwin Beecher
Assistant Commissioner
Montgomery Ala.
 
Colonel 
Assistant Commissioners will bear in mind that they are not authorized to order officers beyond the limits of their own jurisdiction. The expense of such journeys cannot be paid except upon the approval of the Commissioner. Whenever it becomes necessary to send an officer out of the State application will be made to the Commissioner for the proper orders.

By order of 
Maj. Gen. Howard
F. D. Sewall 
A. A. A. General