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Sunderlandville Md.
December 10th /69

Maj. D. G. Swaim,
Supt. of Education

Dear Sir,
What am I to do in regard to allowing the people to hold "meeting" in the school house? They have a church, but are too [[underlined]] negligent [[/underlined]] to fix the stove pipe secure, & in consequence thereof, every time they "meet", [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] as a matter of course with them, some one or perhaps a half dozen, & sometimes even half the congregation get to "shouting" (as they term it, but I think [[underlined]] jumping [[/underlined]] & "kicking up a dust", a more appropriate term to apply to their actions at that time) & down come the pipe & often stove too. I know our school house is