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War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 4th 1867.

Colonel C.C. Sibley
Assistant Commissioner
Macon, Georgia,

Colonel,
I am directed by the Commissioner to request that you will forward to this Office a list of the Civilian-appointees in your District who have been appointed by orders not issued from this Office, in order that appointments for them may be made out and sent them from this Office.  

Hereafter all such appointments will, upon the recommendation of the Assistant Commissioner, be made and revoked from this Office.
By order of Major General Howard
A.P. Ketchum
Bvt Lieut Col., Act Asst Adj't General

It is considered that the above was complied with by your communications of the 29th inst