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Agent of the Bureau is a source of much satisfaction to me & may add many others. With his assistance I have strong hopes of being able to make the shool here worthy the liberal patronage of the freed people, and the respect & admiration of the whites. The school will reopen on the 9th of the present month, you will please forward me the necessary blanks for making reports &c. I have no later word from Hare Hazledine and  Weight than your letter of the 19th of July. Weight has proved himself to be a most notorious Swindle & rascal, I have just had an interview with Mr. Smith who occupied the plantation where Weight was teaching Mr. Smith informs me that Weight collected two months pay in advance and did not teach but one. That he received from him $125.00 to pay his expenses to New Orleans to buy