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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 3 3 Browse Search
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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 56: famine reliefs; paying soldiers' bounties, and summary of work accomplished (search)
y to aiding the faithful colored soldiers and sailors till that Claim Division should properly end; and, further, they saw that I wished to stimulate every educational interest till our Government schools and those of benevolent societies should become absorbed in a grand free system; we hoped such a system would be inaugurated by each separate State after the processes of reconstruction had had time to crystallize. To further my wishes and recommendations, Congress gave us the Act of June 24, 1868. This continued the Bureau with some modifications, to July 16, 1869. It directed after discontinuance at any point, that the Secretary of War should reestablish it in any place where he was satisfied the safety of the freedmen required it. The second paragraph enabled the secretary, after advising with the commissioner, to discontinue the Bureau from any State fully restored in its constitutional relations with the United States, excepting the Educational division, which was to co
rovide suitable teachers and means of instruction; and he shall furnish such protection as may be required for the safe conduct of such schools. Act of July 16, 1866. Sec. 3 And be it 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 laws applicable thereto. Act of June 24, 1868. Officers and directors of Lincoln Memorial University Acknowledgment is made to the following list of officers and directors for their hearty cooperation in the work of the Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn.: Board of directors William L. Stooksbury, Ph.D., President. Col. Robert F. Patterson, Vice-President, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. Hon. Darwin R. James, Treasurer, New York. Chas. F. Eager, Secretary and Asst. Treas., Cumberland Gap, Tenn. Eugene P.
Sec. 3 And be it 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 laws applicable thereto. Act of June 24, 1868.