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[[strikethrough]] Bureau Officers [[/strikethrough]] One instance [[strikethrough]] of the devotion of a Bureau Officer to the elevation of the freedman, is so peculiar that it [[/strikethrough]] may be mentioned [[strikethrough]] without invidiousness [[/strikethrough]] Two years ago Capt. C.S. Schaeffer, [[strikethrough]] in charge of several counties [[/strikethrough]] in charge in the western part of the State, purchased with his own money though not a man of wealth five acres of land as a site for a School-house (to be used also as a place of worship) and a parsonage. With the assistance of only Five hundred dollars, received from the Bureau and from his friends, he [[strikethrough]] has created [[/strikethrough]] erected excellent buildings for the purposes named, at an additional expense, wholly borne by himself, of $2500 [[strikethrough]] Two thousand five hundred dollars - saved by economy out of his own salary/ [[/strikethrough]] He now makes a free gift of the whole place to the freedmen for educational and religious purposes forever. 

Poor whites had secular (insert paper) - Through the liberality of the American [[strikethrough]] and New England [[/strikethrough]] Tract Societies about Ten thousand primers have been supplied to the Bureau for distribution, where there was most necessity, and especially where little else was being done. They have been very gladly received and very useful.]

[[strikethrough]] A few years of such educational labors, as the last three have been in Virginia, will not only change, very materially, the whole face of society among the freedmen but will open to them many new avenues of [[/strikethrough]] 

Transcription Notes:
Missing a couple words from the pencil in left margin Second line of margin notes appears to read "tract societies"