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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Jan 27th, 1866.

Col. O. Brown
Ass't Com'r
Colonel;

In reply to your letter of the 25th inst. giving your interpretation of an endorsement from this office, upon a communication from Mr L. H. Chandler with reference to the purchase by certain freedmen of the estate of Dr. Wm E. Woods, I am instructed by Maj. Gen. Howard to say, that you have correctly understood the spirit of that endorsement, which was framed with the intention of assisting the freedmen in obtaining homes, and not of restoring property to rebel owners on the plea of sale to freedmen, before

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