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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
District of Eastern Arkansas.
General Superintendent's Office
Helena Arkansas January 22nd 1886

Bvt Major Tyler A.A.A.C.
Bureau R &F Little Rock Ark.

Major,
I have the honor to transmit bids No. 1, 2, & 3 for the building of a School House for the use of colored Children at this place.
You will perceive that bid No. 1 omits the item "Plastering" which would cost from five to six hundred dollars more than the proposal shows.
Proposal No. 2 embraces every particular of the building.
Proposal No. 3 is too vague and indefinite.  
I would respectfully recommend to the favorable consideration of the