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be continued, as it now is, by allowing each Physician, even if they cannot take the Oath, to bring in bills against the Bureau for attendance on certain Freedpeople during each month, the amount of such bills not to exceed the sum of $16 2/3 dollars (the amount now paid to each Physician during the month) - I can see no difference between such an arrangement and the plan now adopted throughout the entire South, when Officers on detached service, away from Army Surgeons, are taken sick.  In such cases Physicians are employed, that cannot take the Oath, and are paid by the Goverment.

I am General
Very respectfully
Your Obgt. Servant
O Brown
Bvt: Brig. Genl. Vols:
Asst: Comr.