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LB. 149/510 V. 3.

Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Hd Qrs 5th Sub Dist Va
Fort Monroe Sept. 5th 1867

Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Comr

General, 
I have the honor to request permission to expend three vacant hospital wards, property of the Bureau standing upon the Wood Farm near Hampton and needed for no public purpose, in the following manner. 
To give the material in them to needy or meritorious freedmen who desire to erect neat and tasteful cottages for themselves: this will facilitate a desirable movement now in progress here to encourage [[strikethrough]] indulge [[/strikethrough]] the erection of better habitations.

I am general with great Resp. 
Your Obdt Sevt 
S C Armstrong Agt Bureau

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