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June 11th 70

Bvt. Major Gen'l O. O. HOward USA
Commissioner.

General,
I have the honor to recommend that the property in this city known as [[underlined]] "Dills Bakery," [[/underlined]] may be given to the [[underlined]] Richmond Educational Association [[/underlined]] on such terms that it may be either rented out or sold by the said association, and the proceeds of the rental or sale be devoted to the purposes for which the Normal and High School is chartered.
If this property were required to be sold at auction for cash, and under the recent suspicion in regard to title, I doubt if it would bring more than two or three thousand dollars which would not be more than half its intrinsic value. If on the other hand it were the property of the