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Office Superintendent Negro Labor,
Department of the Gulf.

New Orleans, Jun 9th 1864

Lieut Wheelock
Secty and Member
Board of Education

Sir
 
I have the honor to request that you have the schools under the supervision of your Commission in this City, convene at 8 'o'clk on the morning of the 11th inst, and to respectfully beg that you will have the children, under the charge of your City Superintendent, or any officer that you may designate, at Congo Square at 10'o'clk, where suitable arrangements will be made, that they may partake in the  on that day.  The Comg Genl wishes all the schools to be present.

I am very respectfully
You Obt. Svt
Geo H Hanks
Col and Supt of Negro Labor

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