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NARA 300

WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, September 7, 1872.
[Circular.]

MAJOR:
With reference to paragraph 6, Special Orders No. 196, dated War Department, Adjutant General's Office, August 23, 1872, assigning you as Disbursing Officer, Freedmen's Branch, Adjutant General's Office, with station at

I have the honor to inform you that I have this day forwarded by express one set of records for your use, consisting of-
* * * * * 
Also one copy of "Instructions for keeping the records and transacting the clerical business of the War Department," which will govern, so far as applicable to the records necessary to be kept by you.
Also the following blanks: [Forms 2 to 22 inclusive.]

Also one set of General Orders of the War Department, so far as the same pertain to "the discovery, identification and payment of claimants" for *  *  *  "pay, bounty, prize money or other moneys due to Colored Soldiers, Sailors, or Marines, or their legal representatives, now residing, or who may have resided, in any State in which slavery existed in the year 1860." These embrace all the orders or circulars issued up to the present date.

Payments will be made by you at such place or places as will from time to time be designated by this office.

If there be no Government buildings at
suitable for the purpose, you are authorized to make, subject to approval, written agreements (in quintuplicate) for rent of an office,

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