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ere this had it not been for the almost total failure of the crops of last season which placed them in such reduced circumstances that they are hardly able to gain a linch [?]] for themselves and children much less to aid in building school houses. The building is all done but lathering plastering and seating the same. We ask you for two hundred dollars out of the "Freedmens fund" to assist in the completion of this school house I refer to the deed is given to trustees for school purposes in "few simple" so they have a clear title and right to the land an which the house stands