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S.C Armstrong, Principal.                    Miss R.T. Bacon,
F. Richardson, Farm Manager.                 Asst. Principal.

HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE,
Hampton, Va., April 30th 1870

Gen Whittlesey: 

Dear Sir:

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Your communication of the 27th together with enclosures exhibiting the conditions upon which the appropriations to this Institute were made have been received.  I am under great obligations to you for them.

I have just placed them in the hands of a member of the Committee [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] in Schools & Colleges of the Va. Legislature & am assured that these will now be no trouble in securing a satisfactory Act incorporating this Institute without distinction of color.  The Committee expressed their readiness to report favorably upon the bill without