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request that they would pledge the support of one or more teachers. All [[request?]] alike, that they had more teachers in the field, already, than they could support. It would be absurd to build school-houses all over the state to stand empty for the sake of treating the counties alike.

3d Our proceeding is in strict conformity to the law. You are of course familiar with the Bureau Act. The language of Sec 13 is "The Commission will cooperate with private benevolent associations of citizens &c----and shall hire or provide by bare buildings for purposes of education whenever each association shall, without cost to the government, provide suitable teachers and means of instruction" &c

It may be strange that the northern public are not more generous, and that the officers of the associations prefer to spend what means they get in the more populous centers but the Bureau cannot do otherwise than it has been doing.

All that the charitable associations can do, aided in the way they are by the government, will not supply more than one fifth part of the schools