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Maryland State Library
Annapolis Oct 3rd 1866

Maj Gen O.O. Howard:-

Dear Sir
You will find all we have in the news of Legislation on the abolition of slavery in the one Oct 1865, repealing center Section of the article to which I before refred-

The ordinance of abolition &c consisted in the "24 Article of the Delaration of Rights" found on page 16 of the Constitution of 1864-A copy of which I send you

Your obedient Servant over.
H.P Jordan