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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, May 7th, 1867

Bt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
Asst Com'r Richmond Va.

Dear General, 
I have just received your note of yesterday.  You are at entire liberty to discharge your duties whenever you find them no longer useful.  Upon your reporting such discharge to the Com'r the appointment here will be immediately canceled.  The object of the arrangement recently made is to secure a more perfect system, not in anywise to embarrass the Asst. Com'r.  In the matter of Agents, when you wish an Agent removed if you will so report to us and request a revocation of his appointment, your request will be acted upon at once.  In the mean time you have authority to suspend him from the exercise of his official powers.  This is now the usual custom, and

Transcription Notes:
"anywise" doesn't seem to make sense... maybe that was a common term then?