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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va, 23d June 1865.

Col Ed. W. Smith
A.A. General, Dept Va

Colonel, 
I have respectfully to inform you that no orderly has reported at my office yesterday or today. The man on duty yesterday, should have been relieved in the morning, he was on duty two days. his orders were to report to me with 24 hours rations - Your attention to the matter is respectfully requested 

I am Co., respty &c
O Brown
Colonel and 
Asst Commissioner