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the lot is 74½ by 104½ feet. By keeping carefully out of view the object of the purchase the owner was induced to give one of our friends there - Judge Tallman - a bond for a deed upon receipt of the above named sum previous to May 1, 1870; and Judge Tallman is under written agreement to deed the same to the Am. Miss. Assocn. for school purposes on the same conditions. The estimates enclosed are less than the materials and labor would cost. We could not build the house for less than $2500.00. 

Chicot county has never received any aid from the Bureau, and we have no school house nearer than at Pine Bluff. Seventy-five miles N.W. of Lake Village. 

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