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of at least 40 percent.
The teachers are expected daily and schools will be started
as soon as they arrive.  We have two school houses rented with accommodations for about 200 pupils.  The Churches have been offered us for use if we do not secure this building.
Mr. Fowls has been trying to get permission to sublet Mobile College for the use of colored schools, but there seems to have been a provision to the contrary in his lease which the owners refuse to abrogate.
Very respectfully
Your obedt. servant
James Gillette
Capt. 15th Infty, Pvt. Maj. U.S.A.
Sub. Asst. Commr.