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WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Washington, D.C., November 11 1868 To Sir: Having constructed or repaired a School building or buildings situated at in the State of upon land owned by your association, Corporate Body, or Board of Trustees and Said Buildings being now borne upon the property returns of this Bureau as the property of the Government, you are hereby notified that upon filing in this Office a guarantee, signed by the proper Officer of your body duly empowered for that purpose, that such buildings or the proceeds of their rental or Sale, be denoted perpetually to educational purposes, never excluding pupils on account of race, color, or previous condition of Servitude, the same will be transferred to your Association in accordance with law. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant, (Sgd) O. O. Howard, Major. Genl. Commissioner Approved. (Sgd) J. M. Schofield, Secy of War. Official Copy respectfully furnished for information of Bvt Maj Genl C H Howard Henry M Whittelsey C Q M B R F A L.