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

Cowles Station
Macon County Alabama
May 6th 1870

Col Edwin Beecher
Montgomery Ala

Sir
Your favor of the 4th inst asking for information in relation to the Freedmens school building has been received, and in reply I beg leave to state that the new building has been called Mrs Shavers, and is of the following dimensions 20 x 46 feet and cost 350$ but the same House is still ocupied for school room that was last year and is 20 x 22 ft Mrs Shaver ocupying the new building for her family, as no house could be rented for that purpose. The value of the two acres of Land is about 20$ and the balance of the old school building about 75$

Mrs Shaver has not received pay for teaching for last year nor this from the County Superintendent