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there are hundreds of the very poor for whom no man cares. We have a most capable teacher on the ground exploring, who reports that if $50 per month can be appropriated for rent and  incidentals, a school of 150 can be immediately gathered. Will you lay the case before Genl Ord. and secure me his authority to draw on him monthly for this amount? 
Second: There is in the State a quaker from Iowa, who has for a year and a half given himself without compensation to the work of organizing schools which have been supplied with teachers by the Society of Friends, in Iowa, by the N.W.F.S. land by the A.M.A. He has given a great deal of attention to the preparation of local school boards for the assumption of colored schools under the constitutional provision recently adopted, and in this work alone, has accomplished a great amount of good.
That he may the more wholly give himself to this work for the next six months, he has removed his family to the gate, locating at Springfield (I think) and is now engaged constantly in self-forgetful labors. His private resources are so narrow, that he really ought not do this work without wages, and yet is not