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[[preprinted]] Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands,
Office Sub-Division of Greensboro', Greensboro', N.C., [[/preprinted]] October 5"th [[preprinted]] 1868 [[/preprinted]]

[[?]] Lieut Col Jacob F Chur
Actg Asst Adjt General
Bureau R. F. &. A. L.
Raleigh N.C.

Colonel
I have the honor respectfully to request that permission be given, to put up some [[underline]] writing desks, [[/underline]] at the [[underline]] Freedmen's School House [[/underline]] at [[underline]] Greensboro [[/underline]] for the use of the Normal Class. I have conferred with a carpenter and have received a sample desk from Danville, from Mr. [[underline]] Dixon [[/underline]] Asst Supr of Education, which would answer the [[?]] very well. The [[?]] is five feet-long and would these scholars comfortably. There are at least ten needed for thirty pupils, the price would be five (5) dollars a piece, made subject to inspection.

I would earnestly request that this application be favorably considered, as the [[underline]] government [[/underline]] [[?]] now had no expenses whatever in promoting education at this place, when other places of similar size, have received