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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned  Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va., July 28th 1865.

Lt. H.S. Merrell
Supt. R.F.A.L. 3rd Dist.

Lieut,
I beg leave to call your attention to an Article in the "Republic" of this date — and to enquire if your officers are "ascertaining the money value of the negroes at the time of their emancipation" —

If so I have the honor to inform you that such a report is not called for, or wanted at these Head Quarters. The object sought is to ascertain the money value of any personal or real estate of which the Freedmen may be possessed at this time.

Very Respectfully &c &c
By Order of Col. O. Brown
P.S. Evans
A.A.A.G.

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