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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, FOR THE STATES OF MISSOURI, ARKANSAS AND INDIAN TERRITORY.
Office of Assistant Commissioner. 
Little Rock, Ark. May 23 1856.
Wm M. Colby Esq.
Genl Supt Schools, 
Sir.
The letters of St. W.S. McCullough Supt &c in regard to the refusal of Mrs. Webster to report her school, referred by you, was returned direct to St. McCullough with the following endorsement:-
"Respectfully returned. If the teachers cannot be prevailed upon to make the report now or in future, St. McCullough will inform this office whether the teacher purchases rations of the Commissary and whether the school is taught in a Gov't building: also the Commission to which the teacher belongs."
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob't Serv't ,
D.S.G. Williams,
Asst Adj't Gen'l.