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War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
CLAIM DIVISION.

Washington, D. C., Jany 27 1868.

Bt Brig Genl H Brooks, U.S.A.
Asst Comm Brd &c. Baltimore, Md.

General,
Major Genl Howard Comm &c. requires that you will inform him, if some satisfactory arrangement can not be made by you, by which the colored claimants, whose discharged papers are now in your hands, can receive their States bounty from the State of Maryland.
I am General
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Servant
A.P. Howes
Bt. Maj. Genl U.S.A.

LS 155.