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[[stamp]] STATE OF VIRGINIA. BUREAU OF R. F. & A. L. *** RECD. HD. QRS. ASST. COMMISSIONER DEC 4 1868 [[/stamp]]

Normal schools, academies, and colleges, will of course have to depend mainly, as all such have done throughout our land in the past, on private donations. They are however so important to bring up the standard of education, and keep alive a general interest in it, that I am anxious to give them this year every possible impulse. 

I trust my reasons for closing up the operations of the this Bureau according to law, without recommending its extension, will commend themselves to your judgment. 

Very truly yours,
O.O. Howard
Major General, Commissioner. 

[[right margin]] W.577. R.F. & A.L. Va. 2d Vol. 1868. File [[/right margin]] 

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