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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, October 18th 1867

SPECIAL ORDERS,
No. 161     Extract.

III  x    Mr James T. Elliott, Clerk in this Bureau,will proceeed without delay to Galveston Texas, reporting on his arrival to the Assistant Commissioner of that State for assignment.
The Quartermaster's Department will furnish the necessary transportation. 

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

E. Whittlesey
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Assistant Commissioner of Texas.