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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington September 1st, 1869.

Dear Sir
The Commissioner instructs me to say that you must confine your expenditures for schools, including rentals, repairs and construction from this date to the first of July next within the sum of ($20,000.00) Twenty thousand dollars. 

Remember that this amount is a nucleus around which you must cluster all that Associations, Churches, and Benevolent Societies can be induced to do, and all that state and local authorities, and the freedmen individually or in associate capacities may be prevailed on to do for the schools. 

By the continued exercise