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If however you desire imported desks the sum of $325.00 must be reserved from the $1800 to pay for them.

The house should be completed by the first of July, and will be paid for promptly, or as soon as papers can go to Washington & back. I prefer to have school houses made by home mechanics, but if you have none who will push matters I will try to find someone here.

I will add that the builder must itimize his account: as, so many feet of lumber and so much per thousand: so many pounds of nails, at so much a pound, etc. These suggestions are made in the interest of the school and not for my benefit. If it is making you too much trouble the matter may rest till I can visit you three or four weeks hence.

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