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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters 5th District of Virginia,
Alexandria, Va., September 5th 1865
Col O Brown
Asst. Commissioner

Your communication of date Aug 29th concerning the detail of Officers as Asst. Supts for the 9 counties of this district outside the Dept. of Washington came duly to hand.

Not one of those officers has yet reported to these Headquarters in due for. One of them Capt M E Orr of 6th NY Vols. at Warrenton in reply to a letter from me, signified that he would be pleased to receive any advice I might be able to give him

Am I to understand this as merely a temporary arrang