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HEADQUARTERS
Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands,
State of Texas
Galveston, January 10th, 1867.

833.   
To
Brvt Maj. Genl. Griffin,
Comdg Dist. of Texas,

General,
I have the honor to request that a board of Officers be convened to meet at Waco. McLennan Co. Texas as soon as practicable, for the following purpose. 

During the War a cotton and woolen factory was built near Waco, as I believe from all the information I can get, - by the so-called Confederate Govt. If such be the case it is the property of the U. S. Govt and it is the duty of this Bureau to take possession of the same. The factory had not been completed when the war ended, but it has been since; and is now controlled by a firm styling themselves the "Waco Manufacturing Company"

The machinery was seized at the close of the war by an Agent of the Treasury Dept, but afterwards was released for some reason,

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