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30 48 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands State of Tennessee Asst Commissioners Office Nashville March 1st 1868 Coppinger Wm. Secretary American Colonization Society. Washington D.C. My Dear Sir John H Day (Colored) has requested me to write to you, and say that he desires to remove with his family to Liberia, under the auspices of your society. He has a wife & three children. He says also that his mother and her husband and their two children wishes to go with them. Day is a carpenter. Will you please inform me if you can give them transportation and if so when they can start, with any other information that may be needful or useful to them in reference to their desired change of residence 620 I am sir Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt W. P. Carlin Bvt Maj Genl USA Asst Commissioner 49 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioners Office Nashville March 2d 1868 Carpenter C. C. Dear Sir Will you please send up a list of your Scholars at your Institute who have gone there under the permission of General Howard and the account of their expenses &c. I desire to authenticate the accounts and forward them to General Howard 621 Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt W. P. Carlin Bvt Maj Genl Asst Commissioner 31 50. Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands State of Tennessee Asst. Commissioners Office Nashville March 4" 1868 Palmer Lieut Col Fred. P. Sub Asst Commr. Memphis Tenn. Colonel. I am directed by the Assistant Commissioner to call your attention to his letter of the 22d ult. calling for a special report, in regard to the Orphan Asylum, now being built at Memphis and to say that you will please forward such report immediately I have the honor to remain Colonel 623 Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt (Signed) S W Groesbeck Lieut 42d Infy & A.A.A. Genl. Official W. H. Bower Lieut & A.A.A. Genl. 51 Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands State of Tennessee Nashville March 6th 1868 Ogden Prof. John Pres. Fisk University Nashville Tenn Sir I am directed by the Assistant Commissioners to inform you that from advices read. from Maj Genl O O Howard. Commissioner Washington D.C. the granting of transportation to pupils to and from institutions of learning is not warranted by law and it is feared will be of doubtful validity when presented to the Treasury Department for final settlement. The Asst Commr will therefore issue no more orders of this kind except to those pupils entitled to return transportation at the close of the present school session Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt (Signed) S. W. Groesbeck Lieut & A A A Genl 624 { Official { W. H. Bower Lieut & A A A G 624