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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, 
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va, July 1st 1865.

To
MMaj. Genl O. O. Howard
Com'r Bureau of Refugees &c &c 

Gen'l_  I have the honor to report that the different benevolent societies of the North are becoming anxious about Quarters for the Schools and Teachers the coming term_ There are buildings enough for this purpose, in all of the cities_ held by men who are not within the limits of the President's Amnesty Proclamation. 

Please inform me whither it is your wish that I should make application for the possession of these buildings directly to the Com'g Gen'l of the Dep't't_ or that I apply through the Commissioner to have the buildings set apart for this purpose_ Or can

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