Digest of Orders  and Instructions to Subassistant Commissioners
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 5: Orders and Circulars
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content: 1866
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M826, Subseries 5.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The digest of orders and instructions to subassistant commissioners was compiled in the office of the Assistant Commissioner and printed in 1866. The manual includes copies of several orders and circulars and summaries of instructions on bookkeeping methods and on such subjects relating to freedmen as contracts, the administration of justice, orphans, vagrancy, and marriage.