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I propose to appropriate $4000 for colored schools in North Carolina to resuscitate the 97 languishing or expiring schools reported by you in the hope of thereby giving them new life & placing them on a permanent basis. This money is to be used for the partial support of teachers for a school year of about nine months with the expectation that from 2500 to 3000 pupils will be brought under instruction who would otherwise be left in ignorance. 

We wish you to act as our agent in appropriating this money, not entangling us with any other society or association nor favoring any religions soct