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Rev. A.M. New man

Dear Sir: Yours of the 4th is rec'd. We are not expending so much as $500 on country schoolhouses anywhere. The people are cooperating with the Bureau in the creation of schoolhouses, and $200 is the largest sum yet appropriated. 
It seems to me that it would be best for the Bureau to assist the people in completing these [[changes?]], and have that used for school purposes. If they trustees of the church wish to take hold in earnest and complete their house at once, I will assist them, upon the condition that it may be used for schools; but I cannot recommend the appropriation of $500. 

Yours Truly
R.M. Manly
Supt. Education