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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Washington Nov. 26th 1866

General:
There will be about $25,000 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 property, 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 energize the schools under his supervision..
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
(signed) O. O. Howard
Major Genl Com'r

Bvt Maj. Gen W. Swayne
Ass't. Comm 
Montgomery Ala.

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