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from forty to sixty in attendance generally, and from fifty to one hundred and twenty verses repeated from the bible every Sabbath. Our Temperance Mtg. here is still increasing in size and the number of members growing rapidly: there are 155 names on the pledge now and we have had to scratch off but four or five for breaking the pledge. The temperance cause is spreading all around here and we think a great good is being accomplished in this way. To return to our schools the reports &c. We have no vouchers to accompany the reports, except the two that I suppose you sent us, and we know no better that we can do than just return them. We do not understand the voucher any how; who it is that has to do the vouching. At this place the colored folks furnish their own church house for school purposes so the minister made no steps toward getting them a house, and I told them that I thought they would be sure of ten dollars per month for it; so if you see fit to send the ten dollars for this school, that is the way it will go; if it does not come I am rather under obligations to pay it myself. 
I get a cursing once in a while from nice white men around here, but that doesn't hurt much, and we go along just as if every body was our friends, and try to do just as we think we ought to
If it suits we would like to have a few lines in answer to this so that we may know whether to look for the money or not. 
Respectfully, 
Henry Cox 
P.S. After I finished visiting we forward some vouchers.