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War Department
Adjutant Generals Office
Washington Jany 23d 1867.

General

You will please report to this Department without delay, whether any, and what violations of the 4th 8th and 9th. sections of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their Civil Rights &c have recured and what action has been taken by the officers and Agents of the Freedmens Bureau in respect to such violations.

By Order of the Secretary of War
(Sgd) E.D. Townshend
Asst. Adjt. Gen'l

Official copy respectfully furnished to Bvt Maj Gen J M Schofield Asst Commissioner State of Virginia with directions to forward a report in compliance with the requirements of the above to this office at the earliest