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NARA 173 Gen. A. Rutherford U.S.A. Sub. Asst. Com. Bureau R.F and A.L. General: I have the honor to represent to you that Ms. Geo. Hathaway of Bristol R.I. has pledged ($500) Five Hundred Dollars towards erecting a public School Building at the "Brewer Orphan Asylum" in New Hanover Co. N.C. for the use of the sixty colored orphans now in the Asylum, and from seventy-five to one hundred more in the immediate neighborhood now waiting for the privilege of a free school. I would further represent, that a building required for such a purpose whose frame work is now on the ground cannot be erected & finished short of an expense of twelve hundred dollars ($1200. The immediate necessity for such a building both for the Asylum & the surrounding neighborhood induces me to ask the Bureau for an appropriation of seven hundred dollars ($700) to accomplish the work. I would further represent, that there is