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Vol. 2. No.2497 A.C.D.C 1867 Parkersburg W. Va [[underlined]] July 31" 1867 [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] Colburn S.E. [[/underlined]] States the Board have offered them nothing further than the proposition of Capt.[[underlined]] Shaws [[/underlined]] & the probabilities are that they will not give a thousand Doll's and they cannot afford to take less. Asks if the Ass't. Com'r. will sell the building to the Church and if he thinks $200.00 not enough to inform him what are the lowest figures he will take and what time he will allow them C Answered July, 1867 [[partially legible stamp]] HD. QRS RECEIVED AUG 67 BUREAU RF & AL [[/partially legible stamp]] [[end page]] [[start page]] S.E.Colburn [[preprinted]] Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands HEAD QUARTERS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, D.C., Washington, ^[[August 5th]] 186^[[7]] Respectfully ^[[referred to [[underlined]]John Kimball,[[/underlined]] Supt of Freedmen's Schools, Dist. of Columbia.]] By order of Bvt. Brig. Gen. [[underlined]] HOWARD.[[/underlined]] [[signature]] Wm W Rogers. [[/signature]] [[check mark]] [A. A. A. General. [[/preprinted]]