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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, November 26th, 1866.

General, 
There will be about $25000 dollars for expenditure for rental and repairs of School-buildings and Asylums in your State. Please arrange to make this amount as available as possible for extending the work of education.

You may use it for building temporary school buildings - for rental proper - for fitting up of School-buildings - and the same when necessary for asylums. The above amount is in addition to that you may secure from "Confederate property." Instruct your School Superintendent, that he may arrange his work so as to increase and inergize the Schools, under his supervision.

Very Respectfully
Your Obd't Servt
O.O. Howard
Maj. Genl. Com'r.

Bvt. Maj. Genl. W. Swayne
Asst Comr
Montgomery Ala.