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Office Asst. Supt. Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Dinwiddie CH. Va Sept. 17" 1866.

Bvt. Maj. J.R. Stone
Supt. 2nd Dist
Petersburg Va

Major
In compliance with Circular No. 23, C.S. Asst Comr. Off. Va, I have the honor to report that there is a location about three miles from the CH. towards Petersburg, opposite Mr. David G. Carr's residence where it is practicable and desirable to establish a school for Freedmen.
There should be about (80) eighty scholars for day school and the same number for evening school. They have no building but are having a Sunday school in an arbor. They the (Freedmen) have commenced to build them a log house, on a fine situation, the site of which they can have free of rent so long as they use it for school purposes. Their building is 22 ft. by 34 and can be finished so as to be comfortable for $400.00 which they will not be able to raise