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instructions might be given to the military authorities to refrain from further interference with such sales, or else that you might be notified of the desire of this Department that such sales should be further suspended I have to say that the President directs that no sales of confiscated lands take place at present within the district named

Your obedient servant
(signed) Edwin M Stanton
Secretary of War

John Underwood Esquire
U.S. Marshal
Alexandria