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American Missionary Association,

Secretaries:
GEORGE WHIPPLE, } New York.
MICHAEL E. STRIEBY, }
Chas H. Howard, Dist. Sec'y, Chicago.

Chicago, Aug 7 1869

Ww M. Colby Esq,
Supt. of Education
Little Rock Ark.

Dear Sir:
Enclosed in this mail I send rental account for Arkansas on Bureau blanks. I beg your indulgence for any errors as the business has been in the hands of Gen. Field Agt. Smith and I am not so fully informed as though it had been mine to attend to heretofore. 

We understood Gen. Howard, Com. &c. to say that $10 per month would be paid on next vouchers for every teacher
we would put into the field. The rent must be reckoned on houses not owned by the Bureau and I have been informed

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