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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, FOR ARKANSAS AND INDIAN TERRITORY, Office of Assistant Commissioner, Little Rock, Ark., Feby 25th 1867. Mr W. M. Colby General Superintendent of Schools Little Rock. Arkansas. Sir: I have the honor to furnish for your information the following extract from the report of Lieut S. Hersey Superintendent of Luna Landing. Chicot County. "As yet there are no schools established in the County, but several planters promise to start schools on their plantations. There are no buildings to be used as school-houses. If funds could be applied to putting up a suitable building, I believe a public school could be organized with fifty or sixty scholars in the neighborhood." I am, very respectfully, Your obdt servt Jno Tyler 1st Lieut 43rd U.S. Infantry Act'g Asst Adjt General