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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

War Department
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Washington May 6th 1867

Major General Wager Swayne
Asst Commissioner &
Montgomery Ala

General
Please make your arrangements so as not to pay teachers out of the Refugees and Freedmans Fund after the summer vacation. Have your Superintendant conferred with the different associations and churches so as to the support of teachers without being obliged to pay them yourself. Already the amount you have received and refunded from this fund, I fear will render it impossible for you to establish a Normal School or college in Alabama.
The desired report what you may do from the rental repairs and construction fund if you have anything to devote to such purposes.

The last Act of Congress appropriating money to the Bureau has tied up the Refugees and Freedmens
(over)