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Office Commissary General of Subsistence, Washington City Dec. 10th. 1868 Major General O.O. Howard Comr. Bu. R.F. & A.L. Washington D.C. General; I have the honor to inform you that the Secretary of War has directed compliance with your request of December 3d 1868, "that officers of this Bureau (R.F. & A.L.) who have been officers of the army and are retained on duty in the Bureau under authority of Section 4 of Public Act No. 613 of 1866, and Public Act No. 63, of 1868, may be allowed to purchase from the Subsistence Department all articles that are sold to Army Officers."