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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Washington, Nov 24 1865

Col. O. Brown 
Asst. Commr. &c
Richmond, Va

Col,
Enclosed I have the honor to transmit a copy of the statement of the "United States Mutual Protection Company for encouraging settlements in the Southern States", and would invite your attention thereto in connection with a communication from this Office of date Nov. 21st requesting you to submit a plan for the transfer of the surplus colored population of Va. to the public lands in Florida, and their settlement thereon. 

Genl. Howard directs me to request you to prepare a summary report of the operations of the bureau in your District, to be submitted to Congress, & to instruct you to bring the same in person, when completed, to the bureau, a he desires to consider 

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