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849

October 2nd

Sir.
A Petition for a Committee of 12, of which you are the Chairman, desiring transportation for certain parties in order that they might go to Arkansas and erect buildings for the comfort of a large number of your people desirous of emigrating there this fall, has been received. 

The Asst Com'r directs me to say that if you will forward to this Office the name of one of your members when the committee may select and authorize to act in their behalf, that transportation will be furnished him from Greensboro to Atlanta and return, such