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Bureau R. F & AL Dist Va
Office Surg in Chief Dist
Richmond Va July 31st 1868. 
Special Orders
No 15
I --- AA Surg E.H. Smith U.S.A. who has  contracted with the Bureau RF. & AL and Dist Va. - Medical Department, for services among indigent freedmen, - contract dating Augt. 1st 1868, - will relieve AA Surg S.B. Kenney USA, who is ordered to Yorktown. Dr Smith will at once take charge of freedmen sick in Quarters at Richmond and surroundings, - drawing on the dispensary at Richmond for Medical supplies, Dr Smith is expected to attend, only, such indigent sick freedmen, women and children as would suffer without gratuitous aid from the Medical Department of the Bureau. His attention will, in the first place, be given to the most needy and urgent cases, while classes of indigent colored persons who less urgently require attention will receive it from him as far as his time will permit.