Viewing page 221 of 290

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Support the family, and being a tolerable good Scholar, and attending School two Sessions, under a thorough Classical Teacher fitting himself to obtain a Certificate to Teach School has Taught School for the Whites, and some times standing in the store for Merchants in this place, has assisted his mother a deal besides Clothing himself.  Now he is disappointed in his pay he feels badly about loosing his time.  He cannot get it out of the White School Fund, and it will be a long time before there will me money enough set apart for the Colored Children so he can get it.  further more it will throw our next School for the Colored Children off a long time.

I told the young man "Malone" after his school had Commenced that the Trustees should report to me the times, terms &c that they had him Employed, So I Could let you [[underlined]] know, [[/underlined]], what was doing;  I asked him Several times for the Trustees' report, But He never Could get any written report, until after the school was out, then they returned your letters with their Certificate as I sent you with My last Communication; I am only the Secretary of the Board of Education for Buckhannon Township, and having ^no say or Authority by law to act, only in filling vacancies in the Board; If I had I should try and make the Trustees attend to their duty as required by law; I am put to expense every time I write or send you any Communication — I get nothing for the postage I pay, and every paper I have the Seal attached Costs 87 cents.

The Colored people in our midst are all poor and mostly Refugees that Came in here during the War and immediately after the surrender of Lee.  And many of us are