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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Oct. 3d, 1865.

Col. O. Brown.
Asst. Commissioner. &c.
Richmond. Va.

Colonel:
In answer to an endorsement of Sept 29th, from your office, returning certain applications for restoration of property situated in Loudon and Fairfax Counties, Va. I am directed by Major Genl. Howard to say that those applications were forwarded to you by mistake, and that Special Orders No. 10 from this Bureau, detaching the above counties from the District under your charge stands unrevoked.

The cases have been referred to the Asst. Commissioner under whose jurisdiction they properly come.

Very respectfully,

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