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WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Office of Chief Disbursing Officer,
Washington, Jan. 28, 1868.

[CIRCULAR LETTER.]

The attention of Disbursing Officers, Agents, and others engaged in the payment of bounties, prize money, &c., due colored soldiers and sailors, is invited to the necessity of having the signatures of claimants written so as to correspond exactly with the name as [[strikethrough]] signed [[/strikethrough]] written on the back of the voucher. In case of any discrepancy between the name given by the party or parties presenting themselves as claimants and the name as given on the voucher, it will in all cases be returned to this office, with a statement of the difference existing.
When a voucher is signed by mark, the signature must be witnessed by at least two persons who write.

By command of Maj.-Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Com.
GEO. W. BALLOCH,
Bvt. Brig.-Gen. and Chief Disbursing Officer.
 

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