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Head Quarters Sub Dist of Selma
Selma Ala. June 21, 1867 -

C. W. Buckley Esq.
Supt of Education
Montgomery Ala.

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

Dear Sir

I wrote you in the interests of Mrs. Margaret C. Dumas a daughter of a true Union man by the name of Alexander Jayne living in the county of Autauga Co & near the town of Dallas.

Mrs. Dumas desires employment in the Bureau as Teacher. She states that the colored people in her neighborhood will build the School House and that she can at once get up a school of scholars. I have no doubt of her qualifications being quite sufficient for the requirements - she graduated she informs me from Mrs. Johnsons school in this city in 1858.

I refer her application to you she not