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

War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, October 6th, 1865.

Special Orders, } 
No. 84 }

VI  In accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved March 3rd 1865, entitled, "An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Refugees and Freedmen," the following described property is hereby set apart for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen Viz:

One lot of land with the improvements thereon, in the City of Selma Ala, lying and being between the range line road, the Alabama and Miss R R, and the Burneville Road containing twenty acres more or less, said to have been the property of the so called Confederate States.

One lot of land in the city of Selma Ala, known as the school lot lying and being South of the range line road and west of the Burneville road containing about two acres