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390 "Report of Rations issued to Refugees" I am, General Very respty Your obt. Servt. (Sgd.) O. Brown Bvt. Brig. Genl. Vols. Asst. Comr. Official Garrick Mallery A.A.A.Genl. (2 Enclosures). (2 Vol. 149.) July 27th 1867. Howard Maj. Genl. O.O. Commissioner, General, In reply to your communication of July 26th 1867, I have the honor to report, that my letter of July 23rd was written during the absence of Maj. White, chf. Q.M. & D.O. and the explanation relative to Erambert furnished from his office is found to be incorrect. - Mr. E.L. Erambert should not have been reported. - He was discharged June 1st 1867. - his discharge was not known at this office until after the Roster was forwarded. There are no Civilian Agents or Clerks borne upon our Rolls, for whom appointment have not been received and Oaths filed in this Office - with the exception of Messrs. R.M. Manly, and A.C. Josephs, for whom appointments are respectfully solicited. In reference to the employment of Physicians in this City - I beg leave to state, that the plan now pursued, (as stated in my previous communication) was adapted in connection with other arrangements made with the Board of Health of this City, and secures to every Freedman, living within the City limits, Medical Attendance at a cost of one hundred dollars ($100) per month to the Bureau. I would respectfully enquire whether the arrangement cannot be continued, as it now is, by allowing each physician, even if they cannot take the oath, to bring in bills against the Bureau for attendance on certain Freedpeople during each month, the amounts of such bills not to exceed the sum of $16 2/3 dollars (the amount now paid to each Physician during the month.) - I can see no difference between such an arrangement and the plan now adopted throughout the Entire South, when Officers on detached service, away from Army Surgeons, are taken sick. - In such cases 391 Physicians are employed that cannot take the oath, and are paid by the Government. I am, General Very respectfully, Your oblt. Servt. (Signed) O. Brown) Bvt. Brig. Genl. Vols. Asst. Comr. Official Garrick Mallery A.A.A. Genl. (2. Vol. 150) Bureau R. F. & A. Lands Hd. Qrs., Asst. Comr. Ste. of Va., Richmond, Va., July 27th 1867. Howard Maj. Genl. O.O. Commissioner, General, In compliance with endorsement from Hd Qrs, Bureau R. F. & A. L., dated July 24th 1867, I have the honor to make the following reports upon the "claim for rent of farm" of W. E. Taylor, situated near Norfolk, and known as the "Taylor Farm". This farm was formerly held by the Department of Negro affairs and was first reported from these Hd Qrs. as taken up on Land reports of July 1865 as Abandoned Land and estimated at 400 Acres cultivated and 800 Wood land. Previous to that time a large number of Freedmen, who had flocked into the United States lines during the last years of the war, had been quartered on this property. - The number at the time referred to, was considerably, more than one thousand, though it has since been diminished by the exertions of officers of the Bureau. Mr Taylor received a pardon, dated 10th Sept. 1865, upon which he became entitled to the restoration of the above tract of land, subject to the conditions required in similar cases. The chief of these are mentioned in the following circulars from the Maj. Genl. Commissioner. Circular No. 15, Bureau R. F. & A. L., Washington, Sept. 12th 1865 - Extract VIII. "No land under cultivation by loyal Refugees or Freedmen will be restored under this Circular, until the crops now growing shall be
