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be allowed to retain possession until the expiration of their leases. 
If however, any actual necessity exists for the use of the property by this Bureau, it will not be given up until that necessity has passed. 
Nothing in the order of restoration is to be construed as giving any claim upon this Bureau for rents or damages which may have occurred from the Ninth day of December, 1865, the date of the pardon of the claimant. 
By order of
Major Gen. O.O. Howard,
Commissioner, &c
Wm Fowler
Asst. Adjt. Gen.