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FERME-ECOLE NATIONALE
Pour les Enfants de Soldats noirs et les Orphelins de Couleur,
Autorisee par Acte du Congres en date du 25 Juillet 1866.
Eastern Branch  Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.   1867

General O.O. Howard
Mr. de Mareil wishes me to inform you that last evening he dismissed from the National Farm School four of the largest boys for their insubordination and daily disobedience to the rules. These boys are = John Brown, Arron Rollins, Wm. Woodrow, George Washington.

Yours Respectfully
J.W. Burghdoff