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Mobile 11th Nov. 65

General

I have the honor to inform you that a proposition was made a few days ago to Genl. O.O. Howard to have the Mobile Medical College for three years as a Freedmen school. A meeting of the Trustees of the College was called to consider the proposition, & they addressed a communication to Genl Howard rejecting the proposition upon the grounds that as trustees they had no right to divert a State institution from the legitimate purpose for which it was intended, & moreover they desired as soon as possible to get permission for repairing the building & [[strikethrough]] putti [[/strikethrough]] putting the College in operation.

Genl Howard offers $3000 for their Surg Genl [[Garard?]] who examined the roof reported to Genl Howard that it would take $4000 to reroof the building alone, to say nothing of other repairs. The Trustees are enabled to raise $10,000 to put the building in operation, & as it is going to ruin from leakage, it is very desirable to get immediate possession -  The reply of the Board of Trustees has been forwarded on to Genl Howard at Washington.

I am sorry to say that the holding of the institution