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depending on you for twenty five cents per scholar per month toward paying their salaries and have written to the New York society to know if they will commission them and pay the balance, if they will not the schools will have to be closed, as I have no other way of paying the teachers, as the twenty five cents per capita will not do it. It will be absolutely necessary to have a janitor for each school house the Societies will not pay their expenses, can I have authority to employ two men for the purpose? also fuel, what will the Bureau do, if anything, about furnishing it? I expect most of the schools in my district will be in operation by the first of October. Please inform me how many teachers you can assist at 25¢ per month, as some of the schools are supported by the colored people, who are very slow in paying the teachers, and I am afraid they will have to be assisted by the Bureau or the schools will have to be closed.

Very Respectfully
S.C. Lee
Sub-asst. Comr.

Transcription Notes:
original volunteer typed "school hence" to me the writing looks more like "school house"