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Shelbyville Tenn.
June 28th 1869

Col. Charles E. Compton
Supt. of Education
B.R.F. & A.L.
Nashville Tenn

Dear Sir:

I have been patiently waiting for your promised visit here and hope I may have the pleasure of seeing you here before many days.

In the meantime I thought a statement of the Facts concerning the School Property and the repairs thereon would not be out of place and hope you will give the following statement a careful perusal.

A Company of Colored Citizens purchased the property Jan 1st 1868 of the State of Tenn, at public sale for the Sum of nine hundred and twenty eight dollars on three years time of equal installments and gave Lewis Tilman, W.H. Wisner Lin, and myself for Security a lien being retained on the property until the purchase money is paid.

Soon after Capt. George Judd then Sub. Com. under Gen. Carlin visited my school and examined the property