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Sub District Mobile, Bureau R. F & A.L.
Mobile, Ala May 13. 1868
To The School Board of Mobile County

Gentlemen,
I have the honor to request your Board to take into consideration at an early day the propriety of appropriating a portion of the school fund for the benefit of the Colored School of Mobile

These schools have hithertoo been maintained at great expense by the charitable efforts of northern societies or by tuition paid by the colored people themselves. The General Government aids these efforts to the extent of renting suitable buildings
In consequence of the magnitude of the work devolving upon them the societies are laboring under constant financial difficulties. Their teachers are too few and are inadequately paid. 

It seems but just that in Districts like Mobile where a large proportion of the School Tax is collected from Colored people an equitable portion of the accrued fund should be appropriated to their Educational Interests.

The Government feels that it has now organized schools among the freed people of this district and has carried them to a point where it may justly call upon the local authorities for co-operation
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James Gillette Bt Maj U.S.A.
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