"Committee."
To this communication General Stoneman submitted the following reply:
"HEADQUARTERS FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
"RICHMOND, VA., July 29, 1868.
"GENTLEMEN: I am directed by the commanding General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date in relation to the subject of the removal of Randolph-Macon College, and in reply thereto, to inform you that authority is hereby given to the Trustees of that College to remove that institution, with all the appurtenances and fixtures thereunto belonging, to such place and at such time as the majority of the Trustees may think proper, this removal to be subject to the conditions set forth in a former letter from these headquarters, dated the 8th instant.*
*This letter is not found in the record.
"I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
(Signed) "S. F. CHALFIN,
"Assistant Adjutant-General"
"To Messrs. John Early, D. S. Doggett, Richard Irby, R. M. Smith, and others, Committee of the Trustees of Randolph-Macon College."