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number forty with a fair prospect of more than the little slab building, 14 feet square lighted by four panes, high in the gable, can hold. 

This house was built for school by one man Rhody McKay on his own ground after vain efforts of these people to procure by gift or purchase a standing place for a school house. This general refusal of the dominant class to permit a school house is the strongest argument for confiscation I have yet heard.

Sometime last summer one Col. Brown gave them a site for church with a prohibition in regard to any use of the ground for political purposes, but signified, they think, his willingness that there be a school there. 

A large building 45 feet long 30 wide has been begun there is enclosed, floored & roofed, in debt they cannot go