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Office Superintendent Bureau R.,F. and A. Lands
Sub-District of Mobile
Mobile, Ala. March 2nd 1867.

Rev. C. W. Buckley
Supt Education
Montgomery Ala.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Sir:
The school matters are dragging on somewhat slowly and for various reasons. Some progress has been made however, and there are three new and flourishing schools now in operation - one at "Dog River", and two at "Shorts Landing" in Baldwin County. The establishment of other schools in the vicinity of Mobile has been contemplated, but I have not been able to satisfy myself that they would receive adequate protection, and have not deemed it well to advise pushing out too rapidly or beyond the boundaries of security.
With regard to the construction of school houses in Mobile I have not [[strikethrough]] yet [[/strikethrough]] hitherto been prepared to offer any suggestions or advice. I have understood that some Northern Society contemplated the building of a school house in this City and I thought it well to see what, if anything, would be done in that way before advising action on the part of the Bureau. From present indications it would seem that this notion had a good deal of vapor for its basis, and may, perhaps, have sprung from the rather
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8/22 - added stamp, to be transcribed per SI, don't have to separate paragraphs were not separated when originally written