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Major Genl. R.K. Scott
Commissioner of Bureau of
Freedmen & R. & A.B.L.
Charleston S.C.

Sir.
The undersigned citizens of the South Eastern portion of Greenville would respectfully present to the Honorable Commissioner of the Freedmen Bureau the total want of facilities for the education of the Children of their section. The whole South East Section of the District of Greenville, bordering on Laurens, Abbeville and Anderson District, is devoid of any educational facilities of a higher Class, for the poor of both races; and desirous of affording the children of all an equal chance of acquiring an education, beyond the mere reading and writing, we earnestly desire to build a School to meet the requirements at Fountain Inn or New Prospect in Greenville, in close vicinity to the lines of the neighboring Districts.

We the undersigned would therefore respectfully crave the assistance of the Government through the Bureau of Freedmen, R. & A.B. Landes, and pray that a sum of money be appropriated by the same, for the purpose mentioned, and hope such aid as has been granted for educational purposes to other parts of this State, be extended to their section, so that the benevolence of the Government be felt, in our part of the country as well as in other Districts.

J.M. Runion Chr. Convention
P.O. Lima So. Ca. 
 
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