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Montgomery Alabama,
October 30" 1868.

Major General O. O. Howard.
Commissioner B.R.F. & A.L.
Washington D.C.

General,
Dr. R. D. Harper, our superintendent of Education, has today tendered his resignation. Under your order I presume be is entitled to transportation to his residence, Xenia, Ohio; but as he wishes to leave before he can receive an answer to his application any transportation which might be forwarded him from Washington would be useless to him. He therefore asks that in lieu of transportation there may be allowed to him the amount it would cost the government had transportation in lieu been furnished.
Very Respectfully,
Edwin Beecher
Asst Comm. for Ala.
B.R.F. & A.L.

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edited: removed Archive stamp not part of original document and should be ignored per Si, its Xenia Ohio, other changes and corrections