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Colonel Carse returned this communication with the following endorsement, viz: "Danville Va January 7th 1867.- Respectfully returned. The within named buildings are not required for Bureau Purposes except the one used as an office by the 
Doctor. From the best information I can obtain I believe the buildings in question would bring at public sale at least $1000.00 and probably $1500.00"
(signed) Geo. B. Carse
Bvt Col. and Asst. Superintendent

This communication was then forwarded to Major General O.O. Howard recommending that the property be sold to this Society at $500.00 General Howard returned it on January 22d 1867 with authority to dispose of this property under the Bureau Law and on the 30th of January I was authorized by the Assistant Commissioner to turn over the buildings to the parties [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] at the price ($500) named. X

On the same day (January 30th) I wrote to Capt Lacey Superintendent of the 7th District instructing him to turn over the buildings at the rate of $500.00 each as per letter Marked "A." and on March 3d 1867, I received the letter from Yardley Warner marked "B." and immediately after the receipt of this letter I instructed Capt

Transcription Notes:
" in first paragraph might be ditto marks, can't figure out what they would refer to. Uneven number, and in odd places, so other options don' make sense. -I believe they used to write using repeated quotation marks like this, to indicate that it's copied/quoted from another letter -- The marks are a method that was used to indicate a multi-line quote. When transcribing, just the opening and closing quote marks are included, not all of them, and not the hard line breaks. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-21 09:27:19 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-21 14:14:06 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-21 20:13:51