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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
Washington, March 1st 1870

Rev. E.P. Smith
Field Agent Am. Miss. Association
New York

Sir:
I am directed by the Commissioner to acknowledge the receipt of your endorsement of the 24th ult. and to inform you that on inquiry it appears that the buildings of Hampton Normal and Collegiate Institute for which rent has heretofore been paid by this Bureau were transferred by the Commissioner to the Am. Miss. Association on the 1st day of March 1869, and no longer borne on Bureau Returns. The suspension of the payment of rental for said buildings, as directed in letter from this office of