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Office Agent B.R.F & A.L.
Girard Ala Oct 21st 1868

Col Edwin Beecher
Asst. Commissioner
Montgomery Ala

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

Colonel
It seems very slow getting the State Educational System started in this county. Mr Edmonds County Supt. has written several times for instructions and received no answer. and has not made his bond yet and does not know for what amt. to make it. I am very anxious to get this matter arranged as there is considerable amount of money in the Treasurer hand belonging to this County - and I could start several Schools with good competent teachers as soon as the new School 

over