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Camp Davis - We have four teachers, & about 400 scholars enrolled. Average attendance is about 360 - 

We have one end of a government building for a school room. It is 105 ft x 21½ ft - You perceive that a school conducted as this is, must be very unsatisfactory. I propose to put
up partitions, & make four rooms, & thus we shall have a room for each teacher. We now have 
[[strikethrough]] long [[/strikethrough]] benches 15½ ft long for the children to sit
upon. What we need is, seats for all, & desks for the larger scholars, blackboards for each
teacher to hear a whole