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($80) eighty dollars. The freedmen themselves have made the amount up to ($100) which I think will procure us a lot near the village and enable us to get the house to the square (built of hewn logs). I send you an estimate for the rest (except such things as daubing, chinking, underpinning, &c which we will be able to do ourselves). Am sorry that there are no carpenters or bricklayers among them as it leaves all the work to be hired.
We [[strike]] will [[/strike]] do not know of a teacher but hope that a northern one will be sent. I am decidedly in favor of having one through the aid of the Bureau as the better class of our citizens will not teach. The Freedmen and the others are too ignorant to waste time with -