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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, July 12th, 1865.

Special Orders,
No. 29

Col. O. Brown, Asst. Commissioner, State of Virginia, Richmond Va. will turn over to Lieut. Col. George W. Balloch, Chief C.S. and Accounting & Disbursing Officer of this Bureau, upon his application therefor the sum of money now in his possession, designated as the "Recruiting Fund" together with the register showing from what source the funds were received, and other papers connected therewith. 

Col. Brown is authorized to retain for incidental expenses within his Department the sum of money now in his hands accruing from the transfer of the old Dept. of Negro Affairs of Virginia and North Carolina to this Bureau.

By order of Maj. Genl O.O. Howard
Sam LeTaggart
Asst Adjt. General

Col O. Brown
Asst. Com'r for Va. 

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