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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Head Quarters Supt 8th Dist Dept of the Potomac
Wytheville Va Dcr 17th 1866

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
A.A.A. General
Richmond Va,

General,
I have the honor respectfully to request authority (pursuant to your instructions of 6th Inst. endorsed on my request for the detail of an Officer in place of Lt Marcotte) to merge the Sub District comprising the counties of Lee, Scott and Wise, upon the completion of the census now being taken in the same, with that comprising the counties of Washington, Russell and Buchanan, Capt. John O. Oneill in charge, and to transfer Lt H. L. Hunt in charge of the first named Sub, District to the charge of the one made vacant by the muster out of Lt. Marcotte. Lt Hunt was formerly in charge of this Sub District and was sent to his present station for the 

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