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War Department, 
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Office Chief Quartermaster. 
Washington, Feby 8 1868.

Bvt. Brig Genl. O. Brown 
Asst. Commr. BRFAL. 
Richmond, Va.

General,
Referring to communication of sub-asst Commr S.C. Armstrong of 28th ult. enclosing requisitions for clothing for gratuitous distribution amongst destitute inmates of Hampton Normal School, forwarded with your approval on 6th inst., you are respectfully informed that it is not deemed advisable to take any action on the same [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] during the pendency of the bill now before Congress providing for the continuation of the Bureau. Should that bill pass and the Commissioner be clothed with discretionary power as to the

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