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Your authority under that section is limited to such tracts within the insurrectionary States as have been confiscated, abandoned or purchased, and which have heretofore been the subject of individual proprietorship.

I am Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
(signed) Jas Harlan
Secretary

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
and Abandoned Lands