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make, in cases of emergency purchases taking proper receipt, & make my return on oath, this would save much delay.

On each plantation or colony I will have to employ a manager and clerk. Some of these I will have detailed if possible. The schools I will try & have supplied by some association.

I have organized two Societies to look after the poor. One is comprised of all the Northern Ladies the other of Cold People, both on going to work in earnest. I tried long since to have the citizen Ladies to organize & take the work in hand  they would not, hence the necessity of the latter.

My outlays in stablishing these colonies will be heavy but,

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