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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Sept. 19th, 1865.

Col. O. Brown
Asst. Commr. &c

Col.
I am directed by Maj. Genl. Howard to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 16' inst, and in answer to inform you that the restoration of property conveys the right to accruing rents. In case of rents which have accrued and been paid in to the Bureau the parties claiming must be left to prosecute their claims before a competent legal tribunal. 

Very respectfully,
Your obt serv't
Wm. Fowler
A.A. Genl.

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