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[[Strikethrough]] Headquarters, Assistant Commissioner, And Chief [[/strikethrough] Superintendent Of Schools, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, District of South Carolina. Columbia, S.C., Oct 7 1869 Maj. Genl O. O. Howard Comm. B of R.F. & A.L Washington D.C. General I have the honor to request that I be permitted to take up upon my Form 2 for October one house occupied for school purposes situated in the town of Meeting St. Edgefield Co S.C. belonging to D. C. Tompkins Esq at the rate of $20.00 per month. Mr. Tompkins intends to devote the amount received from the rent of his house to the employment of a competent teacher in a school which averages 40 per day attendance and which has heretofore been partially sustained by himself and Freed people. I am very respectfully Your obedient servt, Edw L Deane Asst Supt of Ed S.C.
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