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10.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, March 23d 1867.

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 43 }
Extract.

I.  Mrs. J. S. Griffing, Agent of this Bureau, is hereby directed, in addition to her other duties, to make an inspection of the condition of the poor freedpeople of Alexandria Va, and report upon the same, and also as to what can be done to procure homes for them in the North,

{Official Copy sent Capt Lee March 25th/67}

By order of Major-General O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner.

F. D. Sewall
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Assistant Commissioner
State of Virginia

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