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Centerville May 16-1871

Major Gen O.O. Howard 
Bureau of R F & A.L.
Washington D.C. 

Your favor of the 13- inst came to hand this date in answer to a letter of my to you some earlier date. Stating that many student of Howard University would be glad to teach school three months in the County if they could be paid, also asking how much could we raise to pay a teacher, I am sorry to be obliged to say that the people here in (Centreville) cant raise 

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