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LETTERS RECEIVED.

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| WHEN RECEIVED. | Name of Writer. | Date and Purport of Letter | 
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| Oct 9, 66 30. | Colby Wm. M School Supt &c E. 324. | Little Rock Ark Oct 8, 1866 Requests that $2500. be granted for school house at Little Rock in which to establish a graded school for freedmen. |

| Oct 15, 66 31 | Cole Capt Nathan Supt &c ** L.S. 467. | Camden Ark Oct 2, 1866. Forwards Report of R and F. for Sept. and Quarterly Personal Report for 3rd Quarter. 2 Enclosures. |

| Oct 15, 66 32. | Cunningham Jas F. E317. | Fulton Co. Ark. Sept 25, 1866. States, that on suggestion of Mr. Byers of Batesville, he writes in reference to Mr L.D. Bryant's lands reported as abandoned by Capt Mason. He lived there till surrender when he moved to Jackson Co to raise a crop. Has taken the amnesty oath and is not one of the accepted classes. Asks copies of orders &c. |

| Oct 17, 66 33. | Cole, Capt Nathan, Supt &c. Rec'd back approved Turned over to Capt Skinner A.Q.M. E 318. 1 Enc. | Camden Ark. Oct 12, 1866. Forwards requisition for recruiting flag for use of office in compliance with G.O. No. 8. dated H'd Qrs. Dept of Ark. March 5, 1866. States not a flag can be seen in Camden. |

| Oct 19, 66 34. | Cypert J. N. ** L.S. 473 L C 513 | Searcy Ark Oct 15th 1866 Is unable to comply with S.O. 86. dated Oct 10/66 Is gratified to know that the friendly relations between the two races his improved in his Dist. |

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| Oct 22, 66 35 | Cypert Jesse W. * Miscillaneous File LC. 509. | Searcey Ark Oct 18, 1866. Furnishes facts regarding the apprenticing of two boys Jno & Archer to Mr Fortner. Beal Hart who claims them is not their father. |

| Oct 26, 66 36. | Cole Capt. N. Supt thro' Maj Thibaut * Gen'l Sup't '&c Miscellaneous | Camden, Ark. Oct 17, 1866 Forwards report of outrages committed upon Freedmen in his District. |

| Oct 31, 66. 37. | Cole. Capt Nathan Supt &c Miscellaneous file action taken by Dept Com'd'r. | Camden Ark. Oct 1st 1866. Reports outrages committed upon the persons and property of Freedmen near Camden, and the murder of a negro by a desperado named R. D. Nunn. | 

| Nov 2, 66. 38. | Cole Capt Nathan Supt &c. Referred by Col Greene to Com'd'g Officer at Camden. | Camden Ark. Oct 26th 1866. Asks what course to persue where a contract has been entered into, between a planter and Freedmen, the freedmen to receive a share of the crop as remuneration for their labor and the planter when the crop is "laid by" drives the freedmen off with without paying them or awarding them their share of said crop. Many cases of this kind have occurred in Union Co. |

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