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War Department
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
Washington, September 9th, 1871

To Chiefs of Bureaus of the War Department

Sir:
I have respectfully to call your attention to the following enacts from Acts of Congress, in compliance with which the Secretary War directs that you forward the Adjutant General, to be sub=mitted to him for examination, your annual report of the operations of your Department by the 20th day of October, 1871.
Be enacted, &c., That hereafter, instead of furnishing manuscript copies of the documents usually accompanying their annual reports to each House of Congress, the heads of the several departments of government shall transmit them, on or before the first day of November in each year, to the Superintendent of Public Printing, who shall cause to be printed the usual number, and, in addition thereto, one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, and two thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, &c, &c.

Sec 3. And be in further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the heads of the several departments of the government to furnish the Superintendent of Public Printing with copies of their respective reports on or before the third Monday in November in each year.

I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
E D Townsend
Adjutant General.

To the
Commissioner
Bureau Refugees Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands