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[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS,
Washington, D. C., ^Dec. 17th^ 1869. [[/preprinted]]

Dear Sir

The commissioner desires that my report for the six months ending January 1st 1870 be issued by the 1st of February next. To do so it is necessary that the State Superintendents transmit their Semiannual narrative Statement (together with the statistical report for December) promptly at the close of the year. 

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