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for the teacher to, and from the field of labor, also furnish books &c if the other half of the salary of the teacher can by furnished by the Bureau as above requested.
If you can not do so much as this, please state what you can and will do.
If this request is granted, blank forms of application for the Bureau Allowance are requested.
I am. Sir.
With Great Respect
your obedient servant
S.C. Armstrong

[[strikethrough]] Sub Asst Com'r 5th Dist. Va. [[/strikethrough]]

I did not mean this to be official as the fund from which I hope to secure and is not public.  I wish to seem a certainty as a basis of operations - in order to secure good teachers from a distance, and to be assured of your cooperation to the end of the year in June 1869. 
S.C. Armstrong