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Fort Magruder Va.
April 11th / 70
Gen S. C. Armstrong
I now write to inform you of the situation of things here. When I came here you told me to charge 10 cts for week for each Scholar, Mr. Jones of Richmond came and changed that and formed a board of men to pay it all. This board paid for Jan. and Feb. and a first of March, and now the sharing has come and these men are working on their farms and says they have no money now to pay this sum of twenty dollars for month. And if I were to change that now to 10 cts the parrents of the children. Would