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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, 
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va, 7th July 1865.

Major Genl O. O. Howard 
Commissioner Bureau Refugees &c

General, 
I find the Affairs of the Bureau much embarrassed by the mustering out of Officers and men detailed to it for duty_

I do not know how this can be remedied, unless more civiliains are employed_ 

I suppose Asst Supts can be borne and paid on Q.M. Rolls, but know of no way in which funds sufficient to defray these excpendetures can be raised within the Bureau, unless we are allowed to cut and sell wood and Lumber_ Will you please direct in the matter

I am General, Yours &c 
O. Brown Col and Asst Comr

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