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B 82 RF & AL. 1865

Richmond Va
Sept 8. 1865

Brown O. Col.
Asst Comr RF & AL.

Suggests the propriety of returning all Freedmen of the pauper class to the Counties to which they belong, and taxing each County to support its own paupers.

2.B, 375.

[[stamp]] BUREAU R. F. & A. L. WASHINGTON. REC’D SEP 10 1865 [[/stamp]]

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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen &c
Washington Sept. 14th 1865

Respectfully returned to Col. O Brown Asst. Comr &c. Such a plan as you propose would be very desirable if the Bureau had the power to levy any such tax. which of course it has not. Would each county now levy and collect such a tax? It is quite evident that it will have to be done when the State Government is reorganized.

By Order of,
Major Genl. O. O. Howard Comr.
Saml L Taggart
Asst. Adjt. General.
 
{EB. 77 1965}
 

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