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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
FOR THE STATES OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS.
St. Louis, Mo Oct 14 1865.

Maj Genl O O Howard
Commissioner &c
Washington D.C.

General

Reports from Ark. for Sept, are not yet recd. Capt Skinner A.Q.M. is at work underway to get the financial accts of Maj Sargent in shape so as to enable me to make a report. The Muster out of Capt Buck A.Q.M. who had first began that work delays its compilation.

I have ordered that all issue of rations by this Bureau in Missouri cease on the 31st inst, and at Quincy Ill on the 30th of Nov. the destitute at Quincy are women and children (about 250 in number) mostly families