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Fort Smith Arkansas
April 1st 1868
Mr Wm M Colby
Superintendent Education
Bureau RF&AL
Little Rock Arkansas
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that, I have as Agent of the Am. Miss Association secured by purchase three eligable lots, each 50 x 140, well situated for the purpose of building a school house.
The transfer is now being made.  The colored people and citizens have constituted one half, viz $225.00 & the Association assumes the ballance