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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Washington, D.C., Oct. 24th 1868.

Rev. R. M. Manly.-
Supt. of Education.

Dear Sir.-

The following communication has just been received from the Commissioner of the Bureau.-

"Please make a Digest of the Laws of the reconstructed States on the subject of common school education and append to it a statement of the provisions actually made in States or cities at the South for the establishment of common schools."

Will you please furnish me at once with the material to enable me to comply with the demand of the Commissioner, upon both these points.

Very respectfully,