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War Department
Bureau Refugees Freedman and Abandoned Lands
Office Chief Quartermaster.
Washington D.C. July 30" 1868.

Brvt. Brig. Genl. O.L. Shepherd. U.S.A.
Asst Commr. B.R.F. and A.L.
Montgomery. Ala.

General:-
Referring to Report of buildings intended for colored schools in Alabama, constructed in whole or in part by this Bureau, forwarded by the Assistant Commissioner on 15" instant, you are respectfully requested to cause to be forwarded to this office copies of all papers on file relating to the purchase of the property situated at Talladega, including copy of the voucher issued for the $4000 paid by the Bureau, together with the estimated value of the land and of the buildings located thereon
By Command of