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most intelligent men, white or colored, who can be fully trusted for their integrity and business capacity.  A lot must be bought and paid for and deeded to these trustees, and the deed must expressly state that the trustees hold the lot and the improvements on it, to be used for school purposes, for freedmen and their children, or for children irrespective of color, forever.

2d.  The trustees and friends of the enterprise must raise sufficient means, so that they will be ready to enter into contract with me to complete the house, according to a plan that shall be agreed upon, before the 1st day of October, for a certain sum of money which I may agree to furnish.  [I may pay as much as $250.]

The white people ought to help.  Will they not?  And many of the colored people will have to give more than $1.00 a-piece.  Can they, and will they do it?  Set the ball rolling and find out the facts, and remember that a large amount which will be subscribed, will never be collected: so, make your subscription large enough.

At your earliest convenience send me a rough plan of the proposed building.  Size, height, windows, material of which it is to be built, and whether to be plastered or not.  The Bureau will not wish to own or hold the building in any way: but it should be legally held and managed by the trustees.

Yours &c
R.M. Manly
Supt. Education