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War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPT. SCHOOLS
Washington April 23d 1869

Joseph Welsh 
Supt Education
Austin, Texas

Dear Sir:
In reply to a communication from Genl C.H. Howard in regard to Ed. Form No. 5" it is deemed advisable to continue to report the facts required in that blank for the present. A new arrangement has been made which we hope will ere long obviable that necessity.
Very respectfully 
Your obedient servant
J.W. Alvord
Genl Supt Schools