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Talladega Dec 21st 1868
Supt Education Bureau R.F. & A.L.

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

The colored people of township 20 Range 3 of this County have raised by subscription the sum of one hundred dollars to purchase a suitable school house for the colored children. The place selected is in the village of Childersburg. contains three acres of ground with a good dwelling theron 16 by 32 feet well framed and weather boarded, an excellent well of water, and all fenced in. This property is offered term at the low figure of $225.00 with indisputable title.

This is the proper location for this township school as there are large numbers of colored people in that part of the county and we now have a school there in successful operation with about forty pupils, and there will probably be upwards of one hundred pupils attending that school after the 1st of January. If it is in the power of the Bureau to assist them to the amount of $125.00 I think a bargain be had in the purchase of the place.

Very Respectfully &c
J G Chandron
County Supt