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I made application to Major Stone of the Bureau in this city for desks & benches for the Old St. School & he replies that I must negotiate with you, by official communication stating the necessity &c
Is this sufficiently official! I cannot have the truly necessary desks & benches? I also asked a platform for one of the rooms. He replied that he had no funds for such appropriation. I therefore had it made, at the expense of one dollar ($1.00)
I regret that I have not your full address. 
Yours respectfully,
J.S. Fortune
Supt. 
P.S. 
I ought perhaps to add, that there will be no need of instituting inquiries respecting these two girls, as I have been very thorough in that respect before engaging them.