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L.S. 169
War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Washinton, Feby. 1st 1868

General:

Your communication of yesterdays date is received. The Major General, Commissioner, desires, if practicable, that you find some suitable person, who is a citisen of Maryland, and who has a [[?]] under the Maryland law for the collection of State bounties, who will cooperate with you to secure to the Colored Claimants of Maryland their State bounty.

I am General,
Very Respectfully
A.P. Howe
Bt. Maj. Gen.
Charge of Div.

Agent
Bt. Brig. H. Brooks
Asst Comm'r
Maryland