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Chestertown Nov 21st 1869
Genl. O. O. Howard
Freedmens Bureau

Sir thare is a new Houes in Kent County in the Frifth Elect disterit ware thare is some fifty Childern to go to school and thay have got thare Houes down all to plasting and lathing which will take a bout seventy five or Eighty dollars and if you Can assist them with that a mount thay can finish the Houes and be ready to opin school in three weeks and without this aide form you thay Can have no shool for the next 10 mounts pleas healp thoues poor peopel for it is a hard part of the County and thare is no school in that dist for our peopel. thare is a grate