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WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Office General Superintendent of Schools,
WASHINGTON, June 26, 1867.

[CIRCULAR LETTER.]

To C. W. Buckley  [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

DEAR SIR:- As the school year is about to close, the attention of Superintendents is called to the fact that full information is needed at these Headquarters for use in the Annual Report. After filling the statistical blank, and giving the general history and condition of the schools, please--
1. State any new facts, which the progress of the work has developed.
2. Give interesting incidents, graphically written out, which will illustrate the points in your report.
3. Note down your own reflections on any topic, as to the education of the freedmen.
4. Suggest new methods, general or particular, as to school management in any department.
5. Is there progress in public sentiment favoring the schools, which can be relied on permanently?
6. What progress in legislation ; and are laws actually carried into practice?
7. You may give the maximum, or highest number, in regular attendance during either month of the quarter, as the total reported under instruction.
8. Circular No. 5 Feb. 20, 1867, from the Commissioner, and Circular Letter, May 8 1867, from this Office, are again brought to your notice.
9. By making your close report as above advised, and with reasonable promptness, you will much oblige,

Yours, &c., very respectfully,
J. W. ALVORD,
Gen. Supt. Schools.