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Copy No. 1. 

Office Assistant Commissioner State of Alabama 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery Ala June 21" 1866,

Mr J.F. Brown
Tuskegee
Sir,
I write by todays mail to Mr. E.W. [[Pow?]] to employ you as teacher of the Colored school in Tuskegee at the Salary of seventy five dollars per month you will report the date at which you commence to teach under this arrangement directly to me as soon as possible, Mr Pow having stated his intention to go North, I write you directly that you may not lose time in case of his absence when my letter reaches Tuskegee.
We cannot employ an assistant in your school at present.
Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servant

(Signed) C W Buckley
Superintendent of Education.

A true Copy 
P.E. O'Connor
Agt. B.R.F. &c.

(Copy No. 2.)
Head Qrs Dist. of Ala. Office Superintendent of Education
Bureau R.F.&A.L.
Montgomery Ala. Aug 3" 1867

Mr. J.F. Brown
Tuskegee Ala
Sir, In reply to your

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P.E. O'Connor from previous pages Pow or Pou