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Head Quarters Dist of the Nottoway
Petersburg Va. July 5th 1865.

General order}
No 12.       }

1st  Capt Stuart Barnes A.Q.M. is hereby announced as the Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau in charge of the affairs of that Bureau for this District.  He will be recognized and respected accordingly.

2d  All matters relating to colored people in this command will be controlled and directed by Capt Barnes under general supervision from these Head Quarters.  He will receive his instructions from his Bureau through its proper officers, and will send his reports through the same channel.

3d  The orders already issued and the system now in operation throughout the District will remain in force and unchanged

4th  Until other arrangements are made Capt Barnes will be considered a staff officer of the Freedmen's Bureau at these Head Quarters, and authorized to issue orders in the name of the Commanding Officer in relation to all matters pertaining strictly to that Bureau.  He will have entire charge and control of all funds, Lands, &c which by law, or orders, are to belong to the bureau.  All officers having such lands &c in charge will turn them over to [[strikethrough]] render [[/strikethrough]] Capt Barnes, on his application