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Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Office Supt. Ed. Va.
Richmond, Va. January 1 70

Bvt. Major Genl O.O. Howard USA
Commissioner

General,

I have the honor to submit the following report of schools and school interests under my charge for the six months ending December 31st, 1869.

This is usually a period of much less interest and necessarily less fruitful in respects,  than the remaining six months of the scholastic year From July to September, inclusive, the schools have their summer vacation and the educational societies are either entirely quiescent or recuperating from the exhaustion of the last years labor. From October to December, inclusive, the societies are providing "the sinews" for another campaign and opening schools as rapidly as their means will allow. In the cities and large towns, the schools were opened promptly on the first of October, in the rural districts where more was demanded of the people in the [[?]] of confirmation time and a great amount of