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WAR DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS,
Washington, D.C. August 9th, 1869

Circular Letter
To Revd. Joseph Welch

Supt of Education Texas

Dear Sir:

In replaying to an inquiry of the Commissioner as to the grand total of schools of all kinds, together with teachers and pupils, recently reported from the entire field some increase (over the report of July 1868) in schools and teachers appears, but a decrease of more than 15,000 pupils.

Where upon the Commissioner wrote as follows:

"Stir up your superintendents of