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Office of Superintendent of Education,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF ARKANSAS.
Little Rock, Ark., Jan'y 16th 1870.

Bvt. Lt. Col. J.M. Brown,
Chief Quarter-Master B.R.F&A.L.,
Washington D.C.

Sir:
A change in trustees of schools that in the city of Helena is found necessary, and will be made by consent of all parties interested. I respectfully request that the transfer of the building be postponed till such change is effected. This change is rendered necessary by the removal of the trustee Maj. H. Sweeney from the state.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
Wm M. Colby
Supt of Educ