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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