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BUREAU, REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS, Office Gen'l Sup't & Provost Marshal, ARKANSAS RIVER DISTRICT Pine Bluff Ark. December 20 1866 Major, I have the honor to report an increasing demand for teachers on plantations. I view this as one of the most promising features of good to the freedmen, & greatly desire it may be promptly encouraged. I am informed an employee of the Bureau is expected to make a tour of the state with a view to the establishment of such scools. I would respectfully request that my district may be canvassed at as early a date as possible, & as many schools established as can be reasonably well filled. I judge the most of them may be self supporting. very respectfully Your Obt Servant Wm J Dawes, Bvt. Maj Genl Supt. Major John Tyler A.A.A.G Bureau R.F.A.L. Little Rock Ark.