Andrew Johnson

Executive Order

September 07, 1865

It is hereby ordered, That so much of the Executive order bearing date the 7th (2d) day of June, 1865, as made it the duty of all officers of the Treasury Department. military officers, and all others in the service of the United States to turn over to the authorized officers of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands all funds collected by tax or otherwise for the benefit of refugees or freedmen, or accruing from abandoned lands or property set apart for their use, be, and the same is hereby, suspended.

ANDREW JOHNSON,

President .

Andrew Johnson, Executive Order Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203162

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