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Office Sup't. Negro Labor, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 30th 1864. Col. Frisbie Chairman &c &c. Sir I have the honor to state that in the Infirm Farm at Donaldsonville, we have about sixty children ready for schooling, and to request that you will have a school opened on the place, and provide a teacher for same. Dr. Bentley who presents this is the Surgeon in charge of the Farm. Please render him all the assistance you can in setting the school into motion. Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. Geo. H. Hanks Col. & Supt of Negro Labor