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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Oct 23rd 1865.

Brevt. Brig General E.M. Gregory.
Assistant Commissioner for Texas
Galveston Texas.

General.

I have the honor to invite your attention to the subjoined copy of an endorsement from the Judge Advocate General U.S.A. with reference to the character of the oath of office that should be required from contract surgeons prior to their entering upon the discharge of their duties under their contracts.

War Department
Bureau of Military Justice
Oct. 12th 1865.

"Respectfully returned to the Adjutant General. Although this Surgeon employed to furnish attendance and medacines to soldiers and contrabands by a Post Commander, in an emergency can not strictly be regarded as having been "appointed to an office under the 
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