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418 419 785 Head qrs. 5 Milty District State of Texas Bureau R.F.& A.L. Austin, Texas. Sept 26, 1868 Howard Mr. Wm. H. Sub. Asst. Com. Huntsville, Texas. 780/792 Sir:- I am directed by the Asst. Commissioner to call your attention attention to Par. II of General Orders No. 21, series of 1867, from this office, (Copy inclosed). Communications and reports should be addressed to the office in charge of the office to which they belong, and pertaining to different offices should be forwarded in the same envelope. At this Headquarters there are four separate offices - viz: "A.A.A. Genl", "A.A.Q.M. & D.O.", "Superintendent of of Education" and " Surgeon in Chief." Your attention is also called to the impropriety of signing yourself anything but Sub. Asst. Commissioner. The Bureau knows none of its Agents as Minister, Doctor, farmer or Attorney at Law. I am, Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt C.S. Roberts Bt. Capt. U.S.A. A.A.A. Genl. 786 Head qrs. 5 Milty District State of Texas Bureau R.F.& A.L. Austin, Texas. Sept 26, 1868 Morrison Mr. John H. Sub Asst Com Palestine, Texas 750 L.R. M 235 Sir:- I am directed by the Asst. Commissioner to call your attention to a letter of the 2nd Sept. from this office, and to state that no reply has been received to the same. I am, Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt C.S. Roberts Bt. Capt. U.S.A. A.A.A. Genl. 787 Head qrs. 5 Milty District State of Texas Bureau R.F.& A.L. Austin, Texas. Sept 26, 1868 Brown De Witt C. Sub. Asst. Com. Paris, Texas. 761 Sir:- I am directed to call your attention to an indorsement from this office, date Aug 21. 1868, on a copy of the letter of Bt. Lieut Col. E.C. Beman. No report in the case has been yet received. I am, Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt C.S. Roberts Bt. Capt. U.S.A. A.A.A. Genl. Head qrs. 5 Milty District State of Texas Bureau R.F.& A.L. Austin, Texas. Sept 28, 1868 788 Archer John H. Sub. Asst. Com. Beaumont, Texas. 468 Sir:- Your letter of the 26 ult. was forwarded to major General O.O. Howard with the request that you receive the pay, compensation and all allowances of a 2nd. Lieut. of Infantry and has been returned indorsed as follows. War Department Bureau R.F.& A.L. Washington, Sept. 17, 1868. "Respectfully returned to the Asst. Commissioner for Texas. The Law returning Officers on duty with the same compensation and allowance as was provided by law for their grades when mustered out, is not considered as applying to any except those who were in the Bureau when mustered out, and have been continuously on duty in the same." "By order of Major General O.O. Howard. F.D. Sewal A.A.A.G." I am, Very Respy, Your Obt Servt. C.S. Roberts Bt. Capt. U.S.A. A.A.A.G.
