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AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION: 29, Lombard Block: Chicago, June 19th 1867. Secretaries: GEORGE WHIPPLE, New York MICHAEL B. STREIBY, New York JACOB R. SHIPHERD, Chicago Dear General: - I have received the following: "Washington D.C. June 15th, 1867. Rev. J.R. Shipherd, 29 Lombard Block, Chicago, Ill., Sir: The several bill forwarded by you in your letter of June 11th are hereby respectfully returned. The Freedmen's Bureau has no authority whatever to build churches; and these bills purport to be for a church at Kansas Mo. If you ask aid to build a building for schools for Freedmen, - that is legitimate. I have in my had an application from you dated November 22d 1866, in which you as for $1000. to complete a schoolhouse at Kansas MO. These bills amount to over $1700 and are for quite another purpose. I am Very Resp'y, Your Obdt Servt Geo. W. Ballock Brvt. Brig. Genl & Chf D.O."