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old church, to make it comfortable for a school house — but they used the 200$ to buy nails, and lumber - unless you can send this am't I must positively give up trying to give them a school.

Should you be able to do any thing, then I think I must ask the Bureau to commission a teacher. As the people are so little able to help in the matter, they can hardly comply with the terms of the A.M.A. viz to pay a teacher's board bill — No teacher sent by the A.M.A. could find a boarding place on the Island, but I could recommend a lady now living there for the position who would accept the board herself for 1.00$ per day. Still we don't want a teacher unless we get the school house fund. The A.M.A. couldn't pay the teacher 1.00$ per day, therefore I ask whether you could take her up, if any thing at all is done.

My report shows but little paid in by the Freedmen for Nov. The board bills were arranged by my assumming them, and giving the people a little more 
time to get their "[[wits?]]" collected — The planters have been

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