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+ War Department, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Office General Superintendent Education Washington, Dec. 22nd, 1869 Rev. R. M. Manly Supt of Ed. State of Virginia Dear Sir: Please make at your earliest convenience, an outline map of your State and locate thereon, all your schools - indicating each by signs as follows - viz: for the Dayschools, high or normal □ (red); Grammar,○(red); Intermediate, ⬤(red) Primary, ⬤ (black) Nightschools, * (star); Sabbath schools ✝ (cross). Group these signs when the several kinds of schools, are in, one place. Be particular to have every school of whatever kind indicated respectively, so that the whole thus, appearing to the eye, will equal the whole number given in