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Office Superintendent Negro Labor, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, March 28th 1864. To the Board of Education } for Colored Schools } Gentlemen: I have the honor to report for your instruction that Mr. Geo. De Long, a colored gentleman owning property in the Parish of Iberville, offers to the cause of Education through you, a site of ground, free of cost, for the Erection of a school house. His property on the river about two miles this side of Bayou Goula. I have the honor to be Gentleman yours &c Alexander Calavy living with Mr. Delong. A true statement from the lips of Mr. Calavy T.W. Conway Chaplain &c