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Publishes act to continue Bureau to July 16, 1869.
War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Washington, July 17, 1868
Circular}
No. 6}
The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:
[Public-No.63.]
AN ACT 
[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
To continue the Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitles "An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, approves March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and the act entitled "An act to continue in force and to amend 'An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees,' and for other purposes," passed on the sixteenth of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall continue in force for the term of one year from and after the sixteenth of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, excepting so far as the same shall be herein modified. And the Secretary of War is hereby directed to re establish said bureau where the same has been wholly or in part discontinued. Provided,[That] he shall be satisfied that the personal safety of freedmen shall require it.

Sec. 2. And it be further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to discontinue the operations of the bureau in any State whenever such State shall be fully restored in its constitutional relations with the government of the United States, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, unless upon advising with the Commissioner of the bureau, and upon full consideration of the condition of freedmen's affairs in such State, the Secretary of War shall be of opinion that the further continuance of the bureau shall be necessary: Provided, however, That the educational decision of said bureau shall not be affected, or in any way interfered with, until such State shall have made suitable provision for the education of the children of freedmen within said State.
Sec. 3. And it be further enacted, That unexpended balances in the hands of the Commissioner, not required otherwise for the due execution of the law, may be, in the discretion of the Commissioner, applied for the education of freedmen and refugees, subject to the provisions of law, applicable thereto.