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Office. R.F. &. A.L.
Columbia. Chicoh Co. Arkansas
Oct 21st 1868

Rev. Wm M. Colby.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Blanks for reporting condition of Refugee & Freedmen Schools in my district. and will for'd a report in a day or two. I Succeeded in getting donations of Land from two Planters, for the purpose of erecting. Schools for Freedmen, but on examining the record. I find that the Land is mortgaged or otherwise held for debt. and if we took the Land and built schoolhouses on it, the foreclosing of a mortgage would destroy the Govt title, or make the title of the schoohouse to it. As it would appear that the