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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands..
Washington, D.C. Dec. 13th 1867

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
Asst. Commr. Va.

General
The commissioner directs me to inform you that all volunteer officers whom you desire to retain will be appointed "officers of the bureau" in accordance with Sec. 4. of the "Act to continue in force & amend an Act to establish" &c. July 16, 1866,
The Commissioner also regards all Agents as "officers of the bureau" in the sense of the above Act.
Very Respectfully
E. Whittlesey
A.A.A.G.

P.S. Mr. Eliot M.C. agrees with Gen. Howard in the above view.

E.W.