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Transportation for refugees and freedmen to be authorized by the Commissioner only. WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS. Washington, May 12, 1868. CIRCULAR } No. 8. } Hereafter, all orders authorizing the issue of transportation for refugees and freedmen will be issued by the Commissioner, except in cases where special authority has already been given to Assistant-Commissioners to transport sick dependent refugees and freedmen to hospitals; in which cases transportation may be ordered as now authorized. O O. HOWARD, Major-General, Commissioner. OFFICIAL: Acting Ass't Adj.-General.
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