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by your Board will become in due time the board of the State.  In addition to the amount already mentioned it is thought that fifty per cent of the amount required in payment of teacher's salaries for colored schools, from October to January at least will be furnished by the Bureau. With the opening of the new year it is hoped the State will assume the expenses now defrayed by the Bureau. Thus you see, no inconsiderable amount of money, has been raised, and is about to be expended in your city for the education and elevation of the colored race. Your cooperation in its expenditures, even though your Board are not without funds, may be of incalculable benefit, hereafter, to the very large colored element of your city.  Besides your example will hasten the day when our efficient system of public instruction shall be provided for every child of the State.
I have written this much in the absence of the Asst. Commissioner, and without the opportunities of consultation I shall be pleased however upon his return to lay before him your communication and confer with you further upon the subject.
Please accept my thanks for the regulations and reports you were so kind as to send me.

Very Respectfully,
Your obdt. servt.
C. W. Buckley
Superintendent of Education
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
District of Alabama

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Head Quarters Dist of Ala.
Office Supt of Education
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Montgomery Ala. Aug 14 67

Cravath Rev. E.M.
Sect'y American Miss. Assn. 
Cincinnati Ohio.
My Dear Sir
I am in receipt this morning of your letter of the 7th inst, stating that "the Cleveland Commission has just been turned over entirely to the American Missionary Association, all its property and interests are given to the latter". It is highly satisfying to read in this letter, announcing the change, the assurance that "you will organize the for Montgomery and have it on the ground promptly". This is welcome news, and I must be allowed at this early period to tender your Association my full and cordial cooperation in the work before us. I agree with you that "there are many reasons why a mission house at Montgomery is almost a necessity, as that is head-quarters for our work in the state. But there are weighty reasons why the Bureau should not pay of such a house, as you request. The right of the Bureau to make such payments has been questioned by Colonel Balloch of Washington, accompanied by the suggestion that all such payments cease as soon as possible. Hence it is hoped that it will not be necessary for the Bureau to renew the lease of such buildings for the ensuing year. Another very serious objection to granting your request, in my mind, is the usual bad management of such establishments. The "teacher's home" of this place &