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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters, Eastern District of North Carolina,
Newbern, N.C., May 15, 1866

General
If it appears advisable to you, I will employ Capt Doherty temporarily as an Inspector of Camps & Quarters with reference to their sanitary condition. I think such service might be to the advantage of the Bureau & the Freedmen, for a while. Capt Doherty once co-operated in some such capacity with the Sanitary Commission & has a complimentary title from Dr. Page about it.

I should expect him to cooperate with the Bureau & Civil authorities in recommending & enforcing such sanitary regulations as may appear