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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office General Superintendent Schools,
Washington, D.C., Dec 17th, 1869.

Dear Sir

The commissioner disires that my report for the six months ending January the 1st 1870 be issued by the 1st of February next. To do so it is necessary for the State Superintendent to transmit this semiannual narrative statement (together with the statistical report for December) promptly at the close of the year. Please intersperse your statement of general facts with interesting incidents and anecdotes in detail, illustrating all the particulars of of the work accomplished By