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Office of Superintendent of Education, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, STATE OF ARKANSAS. Little Rock, Ark., April 18th 1870. Gen. H M Whittelsey, A.A.A.Gen'l, Bu. R.F. & A.L. Washington D.C. Sir: I respectfully request permission to erect a school house at Rocky Comfort, Little River Co. Ark. to cost about ($2200) twenty two hundred dollars and to accommodate about 50 pupils. This place is five miles from the extreme S.W. corner of the state. Copy of a deed of an acre of land for the purpose to the Am. Miss. Assoctn. is herewith enclosed. I have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your Obedient Servant, Wm M, Colby Supt of Ed for Ark.
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