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Stamp: Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Head Qts. Asst Comr
Richmond, Va., June 8th 1867
Respectfully returned to Bvt Maj J.R. Stone S.A.C. who will please ascertain from the Common Council the probable number of white children in the city of Petersburg that would [[strikethrough]] possibly [[/strikethrough]] avail themselves of Free Schools, if such schools were established in the city of Petersburg. Maj Stone will also ascertain the number of White Tithables and the number of Colored Tithables in the city. Care should be taken that the Common Council should not see the connection between these questions. 

O Brown
Bvt Brig Genl Vols
Asst Comm
E&M
1 V. 511.67

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Bureau RF&AL
Hd Qrs Sub Dist Va.
Petersburg Va July 5.67

Respectfully Returned to the Assistant Commissioner

The number of scholars attending the White Free Schools of this city under the present system is 542. It is impossible to arrive at a correct conclusion as to the number that would be allowed under the new system by the probable number is estimated at 1000.

The white taxables of this city number 2087 and the black 2254. For the past year I ascertained from the Com'r of Revenue and as he does not think there will be any material change the coming year, I forward these figures without waiting further for the new list.

J R Stone
Bvt Major and Sub A Comr
Bureau of RF & AL
EB p 37
Vol 3-67

Transcription Notes:
---------- In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia, the term “tithable” referred to a person who paid (or for whom someone else paid) one of the taxes imposed by the General Assembly for the support of civil government in the colony. Edited - numerous corrections.