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Heathsville North'umbld Co Va
Dec 16th 1868

Gen O Brown

Sir
I had the honor last spring to make an application to you for an appropriation of $200. to aid in the erection of a school-house at Lottsburg, in this county  An appropriation of $100 [[strikethrough]] has already been [[/strikethrough]] was made, but the case is now so urgent I am again forced to appeal to you for an additional $100, believing if you were acquainted with all the circumstances you would readily grant the request and that a more worthy appropriation could not
be made.  The colored people have manifested much enterprise & devotion
to secure and maintain a school. have contributed about $400 of their scanty means and erected a frame building 25 by 40 ft which would do credit to any community in any State, and cost about $700

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