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May 28, 70 M.M. Martin Pine Bluff, Ark. Dear Sir: I have yours of the 19" this day & send you the necessary form for teacher's reports - see [[?working]] on one of the blanks, the essential questions. Please give no. of male and female pupils as provided for in the blanks. Blanks were forwarded you some months ago & also a school register which you might find useful in making these reports. If teachers are not advised in Chicago of their relations to the Education Dept. of the Freedmans Bureau I suppose no person can attack to them for nonperformance of duty. I am aware that your school is a free school so are all others taught by A.M.A. teachers in Ark but they could not be had not this office located & built the houses and the [[?lodges]] in season and out of season with the State & local school office to make them free schools. Wishing you abundant success. I am very respectfully Wm M Colby Supt Edn
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I think we might need to remove see and just add working, it doesn't look like there's a see at least to me.
The lodges part seems correct though.