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War Department
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Washington November 26th 1866

General

There will be about $25,000 dollars for expenditure for rental and repairs of school buildings and Asylums in your State. Please arrange to make this amount as available as possible for extending the work of education.
You may use it for building temporary school buildings, for rental proper, for filling up of school buildings, and the same when necessary for asylums. The above amount is in addition to that you may secure from "Confederate property."
Instruct your school Superintendent, that he may arrange his work so as to increase and energize the Schools under his supervision.

Very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Bt. Maj. Genl. E. O. C. Ord [[?]] (Syd) O. O. Howard
Assistant Commissioner Major General
Little Rock Ark Commissioner

Transcription Notes:
"Bt." = Brevet, a title of honor during the Civil War