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Sept. 6  9.

R.G. Greene, Sec. Board of Ed. &c.

Dear Sir:

I have just returned from an absence of 18 days in the North and find yours of the 30th Ult.  Gen. Brown's rental arrangement with your Board was limited, I suppose, to the school year and therefore closed with the month of July.  Nearly all the rents closed with June, because the schools closed with that month.  This has been the uniform custom.  New arrangements are made for each year.

It is to be presumed that Petersburg is able and will prefer, hereafter, to carry its own burden and let the Bureau go to the less enlightened and the less willing.

Very respy
R.M. Manly
Supt Education