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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Nor. Alabama.
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville Tenn Jany 6th 1866

General
I have the honor to enclose herewith estimate of Funds required for Quarter Masters Stores in this District for six months from Jany 1st 1866  This in obedience to orders of 28th ultimo.

Twenty Five Thousand Dollars will cover the cost of Commissary Stores for the same period.

The item of Transportation may appear large, but with the coming spring there will be a large number of Refugees now north of the Ohio River who will desire to return to Alabama and Georgia through my District. I am now obtaining reliable information as to the number of this class in Indiana, Illinois & Ohio who ought