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327 2V68
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
4th Division 9th Sub Dist Va
Staunton Nov. 20/68

Capt. J.A. McDonnell
Sub Asst Comr

The colored people of Laurel Hill Augusta Co are in need of a teacher for a school which they are ready to open - They have a comfortable log school house, for the erection of which this Bureau appropriated $40.00 On account of the poverty of the colored people in that vicinity they could pay the board only, of a teacher. On account of hostility of the white population towards colored schools, the people would prefer a colored teacher, as he or she could then board in a colored family.
Can the Bureau or Am Missionary Association send a teacher to this school? There will be about 25 or 30 scholars.
Schools in other locations could be opened this winter if teachers of any sort could be procured & their wages paid from any other source than by the freed people.
Very respectfully
Roswell Waldo A.S.A.C.