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Bureau R.F. and A.L. 
Hd Qrs 2nd Divis 2 Sub Dist 
Waverly Station Sussex Co Va
Nov. 7th 1868.

Brevt Maj J R Stone 
Sub Asst Commr.
Petersburg. Va.

Major
I have the honor to state that the freedmen at this place are now constructing a building to be used as a schoolhouse and church. If fitted up as a school house should be in as populous a District as this it will cost $350.00 and we wish it to be finished by the 1st of January 1869. In the present condition of the freedmen they are not able to subscribe for this purpose as liberally as they would do were they in better circumstances. We have now in hand and subscribed for this purpose nearly $300.00, and this is all that can be collected. I would respectfully request an appropriation