STATE OF NEW YORK:
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE,

Hon. WILLIAM HITCHMAN,

ALBANY, Feb. 26, 1870.

Speaker of the Assembly.

SIR-I herewith transmit to the Legislature the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the abstracts and documents accompanying the same.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ABRAM B. WEAVER,

Superintendent of Public Instruction.

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