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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Office Chief Quartermaster and Disbursing Officer, State of Virginia Richmond, Va., July 10th. 1867. Chaplain, R. M. Manly Superintendent of Education State of Virginia Sir, Your application for an appropriation of $6000 00 to build a Normal School in Richmond has been returned by the Commissioner with the following endorsement. "War Department, Bureau R. F. & A. Lands Washington, D.C. July 8th 1867. Respectfully returned. The appropriation requested will be made and the amount paid over, upon legal proof of the incorporation of the instition, and a copy of the vote of the directors, authorizing Mr. Manly to receive it. " By order of Major General O. O. Howard (signed) F. D. Sewall Actg, Asst. Adjt. General. As only two of the directors (Miss Ruth and Farrar) address is known the Assistant Commissioner suggests that a meeting of the members of the Association residing in New York be held, they appoint you Treasurer and