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La Grange, Georgia,
Jan'y 18th 1867

Mr G L Eberhart
I have established a school for freedmen in this place It numbers now over 200 Scholars - two teachers - [[also?]] a night school. The Schools are held in the Methodist Episcopal Church built in a [[?]] and owned by the Colored people They are in debt $400. I apply to you to appropriate $25 per month rent for use of the School.

2 I am about to organize a school at Grantville Coweta Co. Ga Please appropriate something for rent there if in your power - $25 per month if you can.

3. I wish to organize a school at Franklin Heard County. But cannot get the house till I have money to pay rent or build Please appropriate for that place from $15 to $25 per month

Respectfully,
J H Caldwell
Dist Sup.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]