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HEAD QUARTERS FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT.
STATE OF VIRGINIA. 
Richmond, Va., August 7th, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 51. }

1. The Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau having announced that the general issue of supplies to the destitute of the Southern States, will cease on the 20th instant, the time is at hand when the people of Virginia must provide for the care of the destitute and dependent among them.

2. The Military Commissioners throughout the State will at once confer with the proper civil authorities and cause the necessary arrangements to be made for the proper care of all indigent persons, without respect to race or color, within their jurisdiction

3. The Overseers of the Poor, and the Superintendents of Almshouses and Poor houses throughout the State will receive and provide for all indigent colored people now in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau, whom the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau for this State may order to be transferred to them.

BY COMMAND OF
BRIGADIER AND BREVET MAJOR GENERAL J.M SCHOFIELD, U.S.A
S.F. CHALFIN,
OFFICIAL: Assistant Adjutant General.

A.D.O.

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