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222 1867
War Dept.
Bureau R F & A L
Washington Sep. 28, '67.

Howard Maj. Gen O O
Commissioner
By
F.D. Sewell A.A.A.G.,

Informs the Assistant Com. of Arkansas that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) has been allowed Arkansas for rental and repair of school houses, and requests him to make the wisest expenditure possible of the amount, and to see that the superintendent becomes fully acquainted with the actual and most pressing wants of the freedmen in his district.

Reced O.S.E. Oct. 10, 1867