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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Washington, D.C. April 20" 1868.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Rev. R.D. Harper, D.D.
Supt of Education,
Sir,-
In reply to yours of April 20". Mr. Alford desires me to say that all bona fide teachers who are recognized by the Asst. Comr. are authorized to purchase subsistence stores from the Commissary Dept. under the same rules as officers of the army-

Very respectfully
Your obt. servant,
S. Willard Saxton
Chief Clerk S.D.