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nothing would help more in the education of the parents than to throw part of the support of the schools on them. If I am right, & he agrees with us, can not he & you devise some means of impressing on the people the importance & dignity of self-taxation for this end? Public meetings for this purpose would effect a good, than if they are held to insist on the strict payment of a per capita tax, which is, above all, opposed to the avowed policy of the Assn. This question is one which, of course, is frequently discussed by the Teacher's Committee & the Board of Trustees & all data & expression of opinion that can be gathered from Bureau officers & Superintendants, are very valuable.
You mention Mr. Kennedy's having put Miss Howe's name in the Journal as 'Associate Principal' - it is a pity the mistake was made, but will it not do more harm than good, if we correct it in the next printed list of teachers? by attracting her attention to the change I mean - we intend to publish a full list of teachers in the January number, & will do as you think best in this matter. 
Truly yrs. 
J.S. Lowell
Com. on Corr. &c

[[left margin]] x I mean of course where the system is carried so far as to make attendance conditional on the payment making the school a pay school, in short; I do not know how you have done in Richmond & we do send every cent we can obtain in order to carry on the work, but it is a constant regret that the children have to be taxed. [[/left margin]]