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[[preprinted]] WAR DEPARTMENT, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, WASHINGTON, ^[[July 29th]] 1868. [[/preprinted]] Respectfully referred to Bvt Maj Genl [[underlined]] N A Miles [[/underlined]] Asst Comr North Carolina By order of Maj Genl O.O. Howard, [[signature]] E Whittlesey [[/signature]] A A A General. Bureau Refugees F & A.L. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com. N.C. Raleigh, N.C. July 31 '68. Respectfully referred to Rev. [[underlined]] F.A. Fiske, [[/underlined]] Supt. of Education. By order of Col & Bvt. Maj. [[underlined]] N.A. Miles, [[/underlined]] Asst. Coms'r [[checkmark]] [[signature]] Jacob F. Chur [[/signature]] Act. Asst. Adjt Genl. [[end page]] [[start page]] Bureau of R.F. & A.L. Office of Supt. of Education, Raleigh, N.C. July 31, 1868. Respectfully returned to Col. J.F. Chur, A.A.A. Genl. As the Bureau has aided in the erection of one school-building at Chapel-Hill, and as the enterprise to which this petition refers would draw too largely upon our fund, I respectfully recommend that the petition be not granted. [[signature]] F.A. Fiske [[/signature]] Supt. of Education.