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(Circular.)
WAR DEPARTMENT.
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Washington, D.C., February 26th, 1869.

To Joseph Welsh, Esq.
Supt. of Education.

Dear Sir:-

Herewith will be forwarded to you a package of Blank No. 5, which I hope you will come to hand safely. 

In this connection, I take occasion to say, that the efforts of this Bureau having now been concentrated mainly upon payment of Bounties & the work of Education, and as the several Southern States will doubtless, before long, take the freedmen's schools as part of their own public system, we are therefore entering upon a peculiar transition period.

It is important that nothing hitherto gained should be lost; rather that our good work should become a permanent one. 

No school carried on prosperously hitherto should 

Transcription Notes:
11-05-2020: Made correction - This letter refers to a package of "Blank No. 5" not "Black No. 5"