![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, WASHINGTON, ^[[April 5"]] 18^[[70.]][/preprinted]] Respectfully returned to Maj [[underlined]] W. L. Van Derlip [[/underlined]] Supt of Education. D.C. Md. and W. Va. with orders enclosed making the appropriation as requested. By order of Bvt. Maj. Genl [[underlined]] Howard [[/underlined]] [[signature]] Henry M Whittelsey [[/signature]] A. A. A. General.