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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, D.C., June 30th 1870

Mr R.M. Manly
Supt of Education
Richmond. Va

Sir:
The Commissioner directs that the Educational Division of this Bureau in the State of Virginia be closed on or before the 15th proximo. You will forward descriptions of all school buildings now borne on your returns, or that may be taken up on your returns when completed with certified copies of the deeds to the building sites, and the names of the Trustees, or of the officers of Corporate Bodies who hold the same in order that deeds of transfer may be executed by the Commissioner. You will transfer to Br. Lieut. Col J.M. Brown Chief Quartermaster any buildings that my remain in your returns at the above named