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Headquarters, District of Texas.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.
Austin, Texas, April 18. 1868.

To.
Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard,
Commissioner &c.,
Washington. D.C.,

General:-
I have the honor to request that the appointment of George F. Eber as an Agent of this Bureau, made on the 6" inst., be canceled; he having been murdered on that day in Kaufman County while en route from Canton to Dallas, Texas — his station. 

I am General, Very Respt.,
Your Obdt. Servant,
J.J. Reynolds
Bvt. Maj. Gen. U.S.A.,
Asst. Commissioner,
State of Texas. 

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