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War Department, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Washington, April 4th, 1867. Bvt Major General Charles Griffin Assistant. Commissioner for Texas. General:- 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 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 Genl. O. O. Howard A. P. Ketchum Bvt. Lt. Col. and A.A.A. General.