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W 149. (R.F AL) [[strikethrough]] (O.O.H. [[/strikethrough]] Vol. 17,) 1870

Washington D.C.
Oct. 8th 1870

War Department
John Potts chief clerk

The Secretary of War directs that all clerks & other employees of the departments be permitted to leave their offices, on Monday the 10' met at 2 O clock pm to attend the ceremony of the unveiling of the Steuben Monument.

[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[ [/Stamp]]

Filed.

Answered by...187 .
WRAPPER ... ( ... Enclosures.)

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
WASHINGTON, ... 1870.

Respectfully referred to...
By order of Brig. General O.O. HOWARD, U.S.A.,
Commissioner, &c.

Bvt. Capt. U.S.A., Aide-de-Camp.