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Office S.A.C. B.R. &c
Camp Verde, April 30, 1868.

Lieut. J.P. Richardson
A.A.A. Genl.

There is a great desire on the part of the freedmen to have schools established, but it is almost impracticable on account of the distance which intervenes between the homes of these people. The country is so thinly settled that persons attending any established school would have to travel many miles to do so and the probability is that the attendance would be very slim. I have been informed that some efforts have been made by a few of the freedmen to establish a school in Ken Co. by defraying the expences themselves but the project was abandoned for want of funds

Very Respectfully &c
(Signed) Wm. W. Clemens
Bt. Cap. U.S.A. S.A.C.