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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Washington, D.C., Dec. 2nd 1868

W.M. Colby. Esqr.
Supt. of Education 
D .Sir:-

Can you hasten your report under the order of the Commissioner. to your Asst. Commr. Oct. 6th 1868.
The Secretaries are sending their accounts and the Disbursing Officer cannot pay them until there is an official certificate of the facts as called for in the order. 
Yours, &c.,
Very respectfully
J.W. Alvord
Genl. Supt. Schools