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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Sept. 5h, 1865.

Colonel O. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner, &c.
Richmond. Va.

Colonel:
Major Genl. Howard directs me to inform you that he finds many mistakes have been made in Circular No 1. Land Department of this Bureau setting apart lands in Virginia, and desires you to publish at once an Order calculated to allay the alarm which has been caused by it throughout the State, and giving assurance that no stringent measures will be adopted under it until a careful and thorough revision of the Circular has