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[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau Refugees, freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS. Circular(handwritten) Washington, D. C., ^[[February 26th ]]^1869 To Rev. John Kimball Supt. Education, Dear Sir:- Herewith will be for- warded to you a package of Blank No.5. which I hope will come to hand safely. In this connection I take occasion to say, that the efforts of this Bureau having now been concentrated mainly upon payment of Bounties, and Education, and as the several Southern States will doubtless before long take the freedmens schools as part of their own public system, we are therefore entering upon a peculiar transition (underlined) period. It is important that nothing hitherto gained shall be lost; rather our good work [end page]