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Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters 2d Sub-District, Virginia
Petersburg, Va Sept 7th 1868

R M. Manly
Supt of Education
Richmond

Dr Sir

The Board of Education of Petersburg have just selected the teachers for the white schools, but not three per cent of the fifty or sixty applicants would consent to teach colored schools. Advertisements will appear in the Richmond and Petersburg papers for teachers of colored schools. Cannot you have some of your first class Northern teachers make application It would be interesting to watch the result and I believe some of them would be empolyed In this way we may yet have these schools furnished with good teachers

Rsprty Yours
J R Stone 
over S A Commr