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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Aug. 24th 1865.

To the Assistant Commissioners
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands.

Reports have been received that officers of this Bureau have taken into their possession personal property abandoned by disloyal owners. -

The only species of abandoned property over which this Bureau can legally exercise control is abandoned real property - houses, lots, lands &c. with the rents and profits accruing from them.

In all cases when personal property has been received it should be returned to the Treasury Department or other authority from which it was obtained.

By order of Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard,
Commissioner &c.
(signed) Wm. Fowler,
Asst. Adjt. Gen'l.

Official Copy.
Charles H. Coxe,
A.A.A. Gl.

Recd at Office Supt. 9th Dist. Aug. 30th 1865.