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Bureau RF&AL.
Hdqrs 9th Dist Va.
Hampton Mch 10/66

Col. Brown Asst Com'r

Sir,

I have the honor to request permission to sell for the benefit of freedmens schools, such fragments and waste lumber from the hospital buildings on Hampton which are now Bureau property and have been made subject to be broken up and made over into schoolhouse. These proceeds would furnish the means to finish of the school houses, and provide them with suitable furniture, thus relieving the bureau and charitable societies of expense, if not of accomplishing what would otherwise not be done at all.

In this way the ends of the bureau,

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