Issuances
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1055, Series 5
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content: Archival materials
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content: The records of the Assistant Commissioner include a volume of special orders issued and some unbound special orders and circular letters received and issued. The special orders issued, June 22, 1865–December 31, 1868, are arranged by year and thereunder numerically. They deal primarily with instructions to Bureau personnel, duty assignments, leave grants, restoration of confiscated property, and appointments of employment agents. Accompanying the volume is a separate name index.

The unbound special orders and circular letters received and issued, June 23, 1865–December 11, 1868, are arranged by type of issuance and thereunder chronologically. The special orders consist of either printed or manuscript copies of extracts of special orders of Bureau headquarters, the AGO, and the Assistant Commissioner's Office relating to the assignment and transfer of Bureau officers. The circular letters issued by the Office of the Assistant Commissioner clarify or describe in more detail Bureau policies and procedures.