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Very respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant,
Mr. M. Colby.
Supt of Education.

#80 / Little Rock, Ark.
June 22, 1869.
Hughes, Thos. E.
Camden, Ark.

Dear Sir:
Yours of the 15th is received. I have a letter from Mr. Miller and I think matters will be righted this week. I assure you that I have no more authority to appoint a trustee than yourself. Had I such authority it would have been exercised months ago. Please do not leave the place without at least pay for three month's service & you ought to have six months pay. Should new complications and delays arise and I can be of service I will come down.
Please inform me of the result as soon as you can.
Very truly yours,
Mr. M. Colby
Supt. of Ed.

#81 / Little Rock, Ark.
June 22, 1869.
McGavock F. G.
Hot Springs, Ark.

Sir:
Yours of the 14th inst. is received. We will pay ten dollars ($10.00) a month rent for your building at [[?]] village [[?]] if the colored school averages [[?]] pupils, and fifteen ($15.00) if the school averages 40 or more pupils.
I have no authority to aid the school otherwise than by providing a school house.
The statistics of the school (as per blank enclosed) must be reported to me promptly on the close of each month.
Very respectfully,
Mr. M. Colby,
Supt Education.

#82 / Little Rock, Ark.
June 22, 1869.
Miller N. A.
Camden, Ark.,

Sir:
Yours of the 11th is received.
You have my thinks for you satisfactory explanations of the annoying delay in recognizing the colored schools at Camden & Washington as public schools, and for your assurance that the teachers shall receive compensation for their services before leaving their respective fields of labor. I shall be glad to co-operate with