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Office Supt R and F
Bladensburg Md.
December 18 1866

Bvt Lt Col. Wm. W Rogers
AAAG

Col.
In compliance with letter of the 17th inst asking for a report as to the delay in erecting the school house at this place, I would state that the lumber was recieved here about the 15th of Nov. In looking it over it was thought that there were no pieces suitable for sills, as the building would have to be set up some four feet. On conferring with Mr Kimball we came to the conclusion that the lumber would answer by putting a sufficient number of posts under the lumber sent for sills — and I informed the colored people of this through Mr. Bowman (a leading man among them) and tried to impress upon him the necessity of at once commencing the work.

I tried to make a contract with a