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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 4th 1867.

Assistant Commissioner of Virginia,
Richmond, Virginia.

I am directed by the Commissioner to request that you will forward to this office a list of the civilian appointees in in your District who have been appointed by orders not issued from this office, in order that appointments for them may be made out and sent them from this office.

Hereafter, all such appointments will, upon the recommendation of the Assistant Commissioner be made and revoked from this office.
By order of
Maj. Genl. O. O. Howard, Commissioner.
(signed) A. P. Ketchum,
Bt. Lieut. Col., & A. A. A. General.

Official.
A. P. Ketchum
Bt. Lieut. Col. and A. A. A. General.

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