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Mr. Shipherd then wrote asking if the Bureau would in that event pay one hundred dollars monthly towards the salary of Mr Gray. This I felt obliged to decline.

The proposed transfer of Mr. Webb will amount to the same thing: that is, he will be paid by the Bureau. And if we are permitted to do this, I think it would be better to take Dr. Gray.

I do not know that Dr. Gray is any better than Mr. Webb: but as we propose to do a good deal in Mobile this fall towards erecting school houses, I naturally prefer to have pecuniary matters under charge of persons who are known to me.

And I think that Maj. Tracy Sub. Asst. Com' at Mobile, and Dr. Gray, will together constitute a Board in every way reliable. And I think the high esteem in which Dr. Gray is held among the colored people about Mobile, will stimulate them to do more than they