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War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, May 4th 186

Brt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
Asst. Com'r.

General,
I am directed by Maj. Genl. Howard to forward for your information the enclosed copy of a resolution of the House of Representatives.

The Commissioner wishes you to make immediate enquiry into the condition of persons included within the class referred to by the resolution, and to report the result of your enquiries and the action that it may be necessary to take for their relief.

The Commissioner also directs that hereafter a monthly estimate for each state be made by each Asst. Com'r, showing the amount of rations which will be needed to prevent actual suffering among the class of persons above referred to and that such 

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