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War Department, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
Washington, October 3rd, 1865. 

Circular:- 
I Assistant Commissioners are directed as their Reports of Abandoned and Confiscated Lands to arrange the names of former owners of such lands in each district, county, or parish in alphabetical order. 
The number of acres as therein required to be stated, will always be given, as nearly as the same can be ascertained
II Copies of all orders restoring property to former owners, will be forwarded to this Bureau, as soon as issued and when such orders are issued in compliance with special instructions from this Bureau, the papers in the case will be returned with a copy of the order. 
By order of 
Major General O.O. Howard Commissioner
Wm Fowler
Ass't Adj't Gen'l

Col. O. Brown,
Richmond, Va.