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LETTERS RECEIVED.
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| Aug. 28th 35. | Stewart, T.S. Teacher. Ret'd Col. Palmer Aug 28"/68 "disapproved" | 226. 284. | Pleasant Hill, Tenn. August 22d 1868. Asks the assistance of the Bureau to the extent of $ 30. per month, in teaching a colored Free school at Pleasant Hill Tenn. under the Supervision of the State Supt. |

| Sept 5. 36. ** | Simpson, Chas R. Sub = Asst. Commr. Bu. R.F. and A.L. Reports Filed among Monthly Reports for August 1868. |   | Pulaski, Tenn. Sept 2d 1868. Transmits Monthly Reports for the month of August 1868 viz: Monthly Report of the operations of the Bureau. Monthly Report of Claims paid on a/c of Bounty &c. |

| Sept 11. 37 | Simpson, Chas R. Sub = Asst. Commr. | 240 | Pulaski, Tenn. Sept 2nd 1868. Requests Leave of Absence for 25 days from the 21st instant. - |

| Sept 17. 38. * | Simpson, Chas R. Sub = Asst. Commr. Filed | 240 | Pulaski, Tenn. Sept 17. 1868. Requests leave of absence for twenty days from the 21st inst. - |

| Oct. 26. 39. | Sells, D.M. Capt. 41st Infty - Forwarded to Mr Simmons Octr. 26. 1868. |   | Hd. Qrs. Ft. Sage, Tenn. October 11th, 1868 - Forwards a letter addressed to Lawyer Simmons of Nashville, and requests that it be sent to Mr. Simmons and an answer returned through this office - |

| Decr. 9. 40 | Swayne Wager. Bvt. Major Genl. |   | Nashville, Tenn. Decr. 7th 1868. Refers copy of a communication from M.B. Ewing dated Yellow Springs, Green Co. Ohio Novr 30. 1868. inquiring concerning the whereabouts of Isaac Stone, a mulatto, aged about 17½  years, from the plantation of William Stone, Panola Co. Miss. In the Spring of 1867 said Isaac Stone was in Memphis draying for one of the large Drug Houses there, and is supposed to have enlisted into a Regiment afterwards ordered for service in Texas - Referred to Mr. F.S. Palmer, S.A. Comr. for investigation and report Decr. 9. 1868 - |

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| Dec. 11. 41 | Swords, Maj. Genl. Thos. Asst. Q.M. Genl. | 302. | Louisville, Ky., Oct. 1st 1868. Forwards letter of Capt. D. Parkinson of Sept. 28th 1868, relative to frauds on the Government, practiced by Claim Agents at Memphis, Tenn. |

| Nov. 13th 42. Filed. * | Smith, Frances E. |   | Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 2nd 1868. Requests that the Bureau furnish for the use in the Canfield O. Asylum, 25 lengths of stove pipe, 5 elbows and 8 pieces Zinc. Also states that they have no coal and but a small supply of wood. |

| Dec 21. 43 | Smith, Abram  Secy. Board of Trustees of Theological School.  For'd to Genl. Howard, Dec. 21st 1868. See L.B. of that date. |   | Nashville, Tenn., Dec 19th 1868. States that the Trustees have had the estimate made of the Cistern recently made at the school, and the highest estimate given by experienced Cistern diggers is $350. They protest against paying any larger amount. |

| Dec. 17. 44 File. * | Skinner, R.J. Supt. Pub. Inst. |   | Johnsonville, Tenn., Dec 17th 1868. Submits statement of the difficulties Mr. John Wilson, Agent, Bu. &c., at that place. is throwing in the way of the education of the colored people at that place. |

| Dec. 28. 45 File. * | Smith, Thos R. for Trustees of Canfield Orphan Asylum |   | Memphis, Tenn., Dec 9th 1868. Requests that Bureau continues its aid to the Canfield Orphan Asylum in that City. |