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Copy of indorsement upon a reference of the Resolutions of the School Board Mobile County to this office to know why the appropriation did not include other schools in its benefits and to know what the Board intended by the term "School Tax."

" Sub disct Mobile B.R.F. and A.L.
Mobile Ala. June 26 1868

Respectfully ret'd to Asst Commissioner Ala. The tax contemplated in the resolution of the School Board does not refer to the "School Fund" 
It is the actual "School Tax" levied by the County Assessor upon the taxpayers of Mobile County without distinction of color. The colored people have complained of its exaction; having no privileges in the schools controlled by the Board of Commissioners.

The only Educational facilities free to all who could not pay have been provided by the "American Missionary Association."

Other schools alluded to in the remarks of the Supt.dt of Education, are private schools of a few pupils each, supporting their own teachers who except in a few instances, were found incompetent and merely teaching for the fees—often exorbitant. These schools were reported merely to show the aggregate of pupils