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520 Vol 2 Headquarters, District of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands. Austin, Texas, March 20, 1868 To, Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard Commissioner & C., Washington, D.C. General:- I have the honor to request that Mr. James W. McGeal be appointed a Cerk of this Bureau at a salary of One Hundred Dollars per month, to take effect April 1, 1868. The services of a clerk are required at Houston in place of Mr. Schmidt who has been assigned to duty as Sub-Asst Comr. at Sumpter, Texas. The removal of the troops to the frontier has caused many vacancies in the Bureau which can only be replaced by citizen Agents. I am General, Very Respt., Your obdt Servant,
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