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Jamestown Md.
May 2nd 1870

To The
Supt. of Education
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir
With all due respect to you, I must request you to excuse me for saying that I must have an early answer to this, as it will be productive of much good to the people of this Community.

I wrote to the Bureau in Nov. 69 to find if the colored people could obtain any aid from them, in the erection of a School house. The answer was "The people must buy a piece of land, deed it to colored Trustees, forward a copy of the deed to Bureau Office, and provide the