Register of Contracts
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Louisiana, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1872 / Series 5: Subordinate Field Offices / 5.37: Monroe (Agent and Assistant Subassistant Commissioner)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1905, File 5.37.7
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content: Archival materials
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content: The single–volume register of contracts, January–August 1866 (353), is arranged and numbered by date forwarded. The volume also contains several lists relating to contracts (March 1866–January 1867), arranged by type of list; a register of contracts (January–June 1867), arranged and numbered by date forwarded; a register of contracts approved (January–February 1868); a list of "Names of Indigent Freed People in Parish Ouachita" (January–March 1868); a "List of ColoredDestitutes to Whom Supplies Have Been Issued" (No Date); a list of rations issued to destitute freed people (January–July 1868); a list of indigent and destitute freed people applying for relief (July 1868); and a list of indigent whites in Parish Ouachita (January–July 1868).