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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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