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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters Ass't Commissioner, State of North Carolina,
Raleigh, N.C. May 9" 1866
Ret. Maj. F.A. Seely
Supt. Eastern District
Major 
My attention has been called to the very imperfect and careless manner in which some Apt. Supts. keep their records and makes their returns.

Please instruct every officer in your District & make acquisitions for the necessary books, and keep them in accordance with the rules for conducting all Army business.
Be particularly careful also to require from every officer prompt returns of money received, and of clothing ipucd, from whatever source received with proper vouchers.  Clothing has been given out without even taking the names of those receiving it.  Such action subjects an officer to suspicion, and will give him much trouble in the settlement of his accounts.  The responsibility of officers receiving public property for ipuc & freedmen, in the same as if they were commanding troops. 

Very Respectfully,
E. Whittlesey
Asst. Comm.