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details as you may desire.  If you do, please report the fact to this Office.

Your application to have Chaplain R.M. Manley detailed as temporary Superintendent of Schools for freedmen at Hampton, Va. is suspended for the present.  Appoint a Committee for the purpose of thoroughly investigating the condition of the schools at Hampton.  Let this Committee report as soon as possible in reference to the same and make such suggestions as they may think proper in reference to Superintendents, teachers and the plan to be adopted in the conduct of their schools.

The list of lands sent by you has been received.  Do you wish to have them all set apart for the benefit of Refugees and Freedmen?  A part of the list is quite imperfect and it may be sent back for revisal.  In the list mentioning the lands now under your charge, you do not state which lands are abandoned and which have been confiscated, unless you mean