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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, October 3d, 1865.

Circular.
I. Assistant Commissioners are directed, in their reports of abandoned and Confiscated Lands, to arrange the names of former owners of such lands in each district, county, or parish, in alphabetical order.

The number of acres, as therein required to be stated, will always be given as nearly as the same can be ascertained.

II. Copies of all orders restoring property to former owners will be forwarded to this Bureau, as soon as issued; and where such orders are issued in compliance with special instructions from this Bureau, the papers in the case will be returned w with a copy of the order.

By order of
Major General O.O. Howard,
Commissioner
(over)