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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Headquarters 10th Sub-District of Virginia.
Alexandria, Va., May 11th 1868.

Capt W. A. Coulter 
A.A.A.G. Bureau R.F. & A. Lands,

Captain:- 
In compliance with Circular No. 6. from Head Quarters Asst. Comr. District of Virginia, January 29 1866. I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Bureau R.F. & A. Lands in the 10th Sub Dist of Virginia for the month of April 1868. 

The Industrial School, Mrs. H. C. Fisher in charge has been in operation part of the month affording employment to about one hundred and fifty females.
 
The Schools have been materially reduced in the attendance, owning partly to the fact of one school in Fairfax county being without a teacher and four of the schools in Loudoun county being closed during the month, and partly on account of the withdrawal from the schools of a great many of the larger children that are able to assist in the spring work in the rural districts. The reduction in the total attendance cannot therefore be attributed to any lack of ambition in the pursuit of an education, but can more properly be charged