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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