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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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