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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 30th, 1868.

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 55 }
Extract.

II  All that portion of the Counties of Fairfax and Alexandria in the State of Virginia as is contained with in the area described by a radius of three (3) miles extending from Freedmen's Village, and striking the river above and below, the same is hereby transferred to the jurisdiction of the Assistant Commissioner of the District of Columbia.
                                                      {Copy sent Col Lee May 2d 1868}
                                                      By order of Major-General O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner:
                                                      J. A. Bemis
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Genl. O Brown,
Asst. Commissioner of Virginia

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