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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
FOR ARKANSAS.
Office of Assistant Commissioner
Little Rock, Ark., Aug 6th, 1867.

Wm. M. Colby
Superintendent of Education.

Sir:

I have the honor to furnish for your information the following extract from the monthly report of July of Bt. Maj. A.H. Andrews, Agent at Batesville, Ark.

"I take pleasure in being able to report that the defect of the title to the lots purchased by the freedmen as a site for a school house caused by some obscurity in the old deeds from which the title was derived, has been remedied and I am now able to report that they have a good clear title to the original lots purchased."

I am very respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
Jno E Bennett
Act. Asst. Adjt. Genl.