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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Jan. 26th, 1869. 

Hon. J. M. Schofield
Sec. of War

Sir
I have the honor to invite your attention to the last claim of Sec. 5 Act of Congress July 25th 1868 (No. 97) and to ask if the words "as now provided by law" are to be construed as referring to the words "one year from & after the sixteenth of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight" in Sec. 1 Act of July 16, 1868 (No. 63).

In other words must the educational department in the County department of this bureau be