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

Office Assistant Commissioner, State of Alabama,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Montgomery, Ala., March 28th 1866.

Special Orders, }
No. 53          }

II. Mr. E. C. Branch is hereby appointed Superintendent of schools for the District of Mobile.

He will report to C. W. Buckley Supt. of Education for the State of Alabama and will be governed by such instructions as he may receive from him.

By Order of Brevet Major General Wager Swayne, 
C Cadle Jr
Assistant Adjutant General.

C. W. Buckley
Supt. of Education.

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