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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, December 16th, 1868.

Bt. Col. J. R. Lewis
Assistant = Commissioner,
Atlanta Georgia

Col,
By direction of the Secretary of War, and in accordance with your request of ~ the appointment of M. R. Bell as an Agent in the State of Georgia made December 19,th 67, from this Office is hereby revoked to date Decr. 5th, 1868.

By order of Maj.- Gen O. O. Howard Commissioner.
E. Whittlesey
Act. Asst. Adj. = General.

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