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  For this supply would be made at Bureau H. Qrs. With this view I informed the Bureau that teachers would be wanted for the points named in my request for an
appropriation, This was done in the early part of the summer, & has been updated in some form, in nearly every report made by me even since.

   I have no such assurance as that contemplated in your communication, unless the teachers can be supplied as at Wytheville; if this can be done, I have no hesitancy in saying that all other provision will be made for supplying & carrying on, the School  The best evidence that this will be done, in the fact, that at each of these places, from four, to six hundred dollars will be raised to assist in completing a School House, if the Gov. shall make the appropriation asked for.

   If it is expected that I should open a correspondence with either private individuals, or Benevolent Societies, for a supply of teachers, will you do me the 

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wytheville: the word is wytheville!