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Botetourt County (Va.) Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Records, 1868

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Botetourt County (Va.) Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Records, 1868, consist of a letter written to Virginia Governor H. H. Wells by O. Brown regarding the transfer of marriage registers kept by the Bureau to the clerks of the county courts. Due to its impending dissolution, the Bureau sought to rehouse the registers per "an Act entitled 'an Act for receiving United States Registers of Marriages between colored persons'" passed in April 1867. In response, Governor Wells instructed the clerks to "receive such Registers of Marriages...and safely keep the same for future reference and use, as prescribed by the terms of the said Act."

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Botetourt County (Va.) Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Records, 1868, consist of a letter written to Virginia Governor H. H. Wells by O. Brown regarding the transfer of marriage registers kept by the Bureau to the clerks of the county courts. Due to its impending dissolution, the Bureau sought to rehouse the registers per "an Act entitled 'an Act for receiving United States Registers of Marriages between colored persons'" passed in April 1867. In response, Governor Wells instructed the clerks to "receive such Registers of Marriages...and safely keep the same for future reference and use, as prescribed by the terms of the said Act."

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