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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband Lands
State of Tennessee
Assistant Commissioner's Office
Nashville, Tenn. June 10th 1868.

Stanley, Mr Edmund
Carthage
Tenn.

Dear Sir:
Yours has been received. In reply I regret that at present I have all the force that can be employed, and don't know that I shall have authority to increase it. Schools can not be supported beyond the 16th. of July, by the Bureau, unless Congress shall pass a law to that effect. You can close July 1st if you wish.

I am Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servant
W. P. Carlin
Bvt. Major General
Asst. Commissioner.


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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband Lands
State of Tennessee
Assistant Commissioner's Office
Nashville, Tenn. June 12th 1868.

Walker, Bvt. Capt. Saml.
Sub=Asst. Commr.
Knoxville, Tenn.

Captain:
I am directed by the Asst. Commissioner to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 10th instant, recommending that Three Hundred Dollars ($300.) be appropriated to complete a school house for Freedmen at East Port, Tenn., and to say in reply that you are authorized to contract for the completion of the building at the cost named ($300), provided it can be finished before the 16th of July, next; at which time the Bureau will be discontinued

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unless otherwise provided by Congress. The Assistant Commissioner wishes you to see that the materials furnished are suitable for the work to be done - and that the building be finished as cheaply and economically as possible.
The work will be inspected and approved by you before the bills are paid.

Very respectfully
Your Obdt. Servant
Jos. W. Gilray
Captain 45th Infantry
Bvt. Lt. Col. U.S.A.
and A.A.A. General.


Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Aband Lands
State of Tennessee
Assistant Commissioner's Office
Nashville, Tenn. June 13th 1868.
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Gregory Mr James H.
Columbia, Tenn.

Sir:
I am directed by the Assistant Commissioner to request you to forward to this Office, as soon as practicable, a certified copy of the Order, or Circular Letter, you received - when you were Bureau Agent at Columbia, Tenn., - from Capt. Michael Walsh, Sub Ass't. Commissioner Nashville Sub-District, in which you were directed to turn over the claims of colored soldiers against the United States Government to the firm of McQuiddy and Alden Claim Agents. Also, an early reply to this letter I left with you Friday, June 12th, 1868, is respectfully solicited.

I am Sir
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
W. H. Bower.
Lt. 45th US Infty
and A.A.A. General.

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