GENERAL ORDERS, 
No 138. 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Adjutant General's Office, 
Washington, September 16, 1865. 
To provide for the transportation required by the Bureau of Refugees, 
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands- 
It is ordered, That upon the requisition of the Commissioner or the 
Assistant Commissioners of the Bureau, transportation be furnished 
such destitute Refugees and Freedmen as are dependent upon the Gov- 
ernment for support, to points where they can procure employment and 
subsistence and support themselves, and thus relieve the Government, 
provided such transportation be confined by Assistant Commissioners 
within the limits of their jurisdiction. 
2d. Free transportation on Government transportsand U. S. Military 
railroads will be furnished to such teachers only of Refugees and 
Freedmen, and persons laboring voluntarily in behalf of Refugees and 
Freedmen, as maybe duly accredited by the Commissioner or Assistant 
Commissioners of the Bureau. 
All stores and school books necessary to the subsistence, comfort, and 
instruction of dependent Refugees and Freedmen, may be transported 
at Government expense, when such stores and books shall be turned 
over to the officers of the Quartermaster's Department, with the 
approval of the Assistant Commissioners, Commissioner or Department 
Commander, the same to be transported as public stores, consigned to 
to the Quartermaster of the Post to which they are destined, who, after 
inspection, will turn them over to the Assistant Commissioners or 
Bureau Agent for whom they are intended for distribution. 
All army officers traveling on public duty, under the orders of the 
Commissioner or Assistant Commissioners, within the limits of their 
respective jurisdictions, will be entitled to mileage, or actual cost of 
transportation according to the Revised Army Regulations, when 
transportation has not been furnished them by the Quartermaster's 
Department. 
By order of tiif. President of the United States: 
E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 
Official: 
Assistant Adjutant. General.