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War Department.
Adjutant General's Office.
Washington, April 9th 1866.

Brt. Maj. Genl P. M. Brannan
Comd'g Dept of Georgia
Augusta, Ga

The Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c for the State of Georgia having inquired whether the President's recent Proclamation removes martial law, and stated that
the Department Commander does not feel authorized to arrest parties who have committed outrages on freed people or Union refugees, the Secretary of War, with the approval of the President directs me to inform you that the President's Proclamation does not remove martial law or operate 
in any way upon the Freedmen's Bureau in the exercise of its legitimate jurisdiction. It is not expedient
however to resort to military tribunals in any

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