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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 9th 1867.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 53 } Extract.

III.  The Telegram from this office date April 9 1867 authorizing the transfer of the Head Quarters of the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the State of Georgia from Macon to Milledgeville Ga is hereby confirmed.
The transfer will be made without unnecessary delay.

By order of Major-General O.O. HOWARD, Commissioner.

A.P. Ketchum
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Col. C.C. Sibley
Asst Comr
Macon Ga.

Transcription Notes:
Caleb C. Sibley