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21.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia.
Richmond, Va., January 13th 1869

Major General O. O. Howard
Commissioner,

General,
I beg leave to state that the apportionment made to Virginia, as stated in a communication of the Commissioner dated July 31st 1868, of Twenty Five Thousand dollars ($25.000), will not admit of any enlargement of the Educational work in this District beyond its present limits. I would respectfully ask that the amount of the appropriation be increased to Forty Thousand Dollars ($40.000).

I am, General
Very Respectfully
Your obt servant
O. Brown
Asst. Commissioner

W.383. R.F. & A.L, Va, 1868.

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