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Head Quarters Department of Ga.
Augusta, Ga. Sept. 27 1865

Special Orders}
No 48.  } 

Extract.

I. District Commander will at once turn over to Brig. Genl. Tillson, Asst Com of Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands of the State of Georgia, & to such agents as he may appoint, all abandoned lands and property contemplated in the Act of Congress approved March 3rd 1865, establishing the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands that may now be within their respective commands.  This will include all hospital barracks, store houses, shops, manufactories, sheds and all other buildings erected or owned by the so called Confederate States or by the State of Georgia for the purpose of prosecuting the war, except those regiment for military purpose,