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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, ^[[September 6th]] 186^[[6]] 
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Bvt. Brig Gen. C. H. Howard
Asst. Commissioner
District of Columbia.

General,
I have the honor to inform you that in accordance with your instructions to make certain repairs at School House 17th & G Sts Washington D.C. occupied by the Schools of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, in view that the School buildings might be ready for occupancy by the Schools, I employed and sent a carpenter to make the repairs — he found the building in charge of J. McClay Perkins who claims to be an agent of the Society. Mr. Perkins refused to permit the carpenter to make any repairs on my order.

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