Excerpt from The Statutes at Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America, From December 1863, to December 1865, Vol. 13: Arranged in Chronological Order and Carefully Collated With the Originals at Washington, With References to the Matter of Each Act and to the Subsequent Acts on the Same Subject Public Instruction in the District of Columbia. An act to provide for the public instruction of youth in the county of Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes. June 25. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.