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[[Stamp]] PEARL SPRING [[/Stamp]] [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] E.B. 5 Vol 3 1868 Sub. Dist of Talladega Bureau R.F. and A L Talladega Ala Oct 14th, 68 H. M. Bush Supt of School Buildings Montgomery Ala. Sir In compliance with your verbal instructions, I visited Columbiana on Monday the 12th inst and I found that the colored people of that place with Miss E. S. Thompson the teacher had commenced the frame of the building for a School house, and had done all that they could for want of Lumber Nails &c &c The sills for the building are laid 40 x 21 feet In compliance with your instructions, I have made out a bill of Lumber, and ordered it sent, which will have to be transported on the Rail Road and I would respectfully request that I may be furnished with Bills of Lading for one car load of Lumber from Clayborough Mills to Columbiana. Miss Thompson has commenced a school at Columbiana in her house, but the room is not large enough to hold her pupils; there will be from ninety to one hundred and her pupils attend this school as soon over