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propriation made immediately from the Bureau funds just before that temptation to this poor people to act so unwisely is effective & disastrous.
I have written to urge Mr. Manly to come himself, or send some able lawyer, to secure us the deed [[strikethrough]] if possible [[/strikethrough]] at the April Court - and settle this important right.
I pray you to instruct him to do so, and please write to let me know that you will lift my burden for the sake of these poor people
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These are the points which I ask you to kindly sanction in your reply, as they are essential helps and  incalculable benefit to our work.
1st The Post Office must remain at the school-house.
(The dwelling is off from the road, and I am mostly at the school-house. Then it does the white community good to come in for their mail and our school. I have every civil outward respect from those who call. Then the Post Office is an Educa-