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Richmond Va. Nov 14th 1866 Brevet Brig Gen. O. Brown Superintendent etc etc General I have the honor to acknowledge your note of this morning saying that the "$200.00 towards fitting up the building on Clay Street will be allowed." Mr. Hovey has taken possession of the buildings. Can you not, in writing, ensure me the peaceable possession of it for as long a time as the Bureau holds possession of the ground on which it stands? -- or at least for a sufficiently long time to repay the cost of repairing it? I do not like to run any risk of having it, with