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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

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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.