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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, January 2d, 1867

Mr. G. L. Eberhart
State Supt. Education
Georgia

Dear Sir,.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your statistical report for November. I sincerely regret that it is so incomplete and I beg leave to urge upon you the importance and the absolute necessity of greater care in obtaining complete returns from teachers. In commencing with our new blanks, we wish to obtain not only a perfect system, but as great accuracy and unity as possible; and we can only do this by receiving the earnest cooperation of all State Superintendents.
You state you were "unable to supply all with the blanks prepared by the Bureau." This was an obstacle that no one could have more readily removed than yourself, as we are prepared to supply all the blanks that are needed in the several States. But we have no means of knowing how many will be required in certain States unless we receive a requisition for them. It is earnestly hoped that you will be able

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