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18 610. Apl. 12 Dear Miss Howland, In yours of the 8th you ask me a hard question. 'Will the appropriation [to be made in July] be used as heretofore for building school-houses?' "If so can Westmoreland have the $200?" The bill now before Congress, which has passed the House and passed to the 3rd reading in the Senate, and will soon, I suppose, become law, turns over all Bureau property to Genl. Sator, Com'r of Education, and abolishes the Bureau including my position. Of course I can only give a "guess" of the future. I would not stake anything upon it. Yours Truly, R. M. Manly Supt Ed 0 609. Apl 12. 0 Booker Purvis I do not know where your pay will come from. It is in teaching school just the same as in any other business: You must look to the person that has employed you. If no one has employed you then you must look to the people who send their children. I do not pay any teachers unless I have employed them before hand and agreed to pay. Yours &c R. M. Manly Supt Ed.