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War Department,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Washington, October 1st, 1868.

Bvt Brig Gen O, Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Richmond Va

General,

I am directed by the Commissioner to call your attention to the imperative necessity of taking, at an early day, measures preparatory to breaking up the Hospitals and Dispensaries, and the withdrawal of aid from Orphan Asylum's in your State. After the 1st of January next, no further support by this Bureau can, according to law, be extended to these institutions. You will therefore exert yourself to induce the State, County or Municipal Authorities, to assume the care of the sick and helpless freedmen as also the inmates of the Asylums. For the latter, if possible, interest the sympathies of private benevolent Associations. The Commissioner desires to gradually withdrawn the care of these people heretofore exercised by the Bureau, and in the manner to occasion the least possible suffering.

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