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to guard the Bureau against all unjust action of the Board of Directors, towards the Schools or Teachers; and upon the Committee, empowered for that purpose, having signed and agreed to the articles, the order for the transfer was issued.

This transfer materially benefits the Freedmen of this City as mostly all Schools in operation were carried on under the tuition system; but from hence every cold child in New Orleans com have the advantages of a free Education without cost to the general Government, and the appropriation of the Bureau for the Edu. Dept. of this State can hereafter be used for the establishment of the Schools in the country Parishes, where in most every instance the Freedmen are too poor to bear the whole expense of opening & carrying on a School, the unfavorable crop of the past season having left them with hardly means enough for subsistence. 

Very Respectfully
Your Obd. Servant
J. M. Lee
1st Lieut. 39th. U.S.I. & Ac.G.S.Educ.'
Bu. R.F. and A.L. State La.