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opinion that it would be well to let him, hereafter, apply to the proper authorities, and not allow him to molest you any longer, the less so, as that claim to which Jefferson Gibbens Esq refered, was settled long before the Doctor applied to you for your kind assistance.

Jno. M. Langston Esq was here and had a satisfactory meeting with the colored people.

The $200~ to be paid for the Govt. Building are in the hands of the Trustees, and the $300- to be raised by our colored people will in all probability be raised soon.  Our Board of Education will go to work at once or as soon as they get the $200~ from the Bureau, and an order from you for the $200- the proceeds of the building- and the assurance from you, that whether our colored people will raise the $300~ or not that our Board will get that amount through you from some source.
I mail to-day a copy of the "Times" containing a report of the meeting held by Mr Langston. 

Rev. Kimball promised to send me a plan of the Brick School House at Washington City, erected for the benefit of the colored people there.
I most respectfully request you to remind the