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or quite sufficient to buy the building material except the framing timbers, which they will furnish of themselves.

I authorized Mr. Willis Adkins to let the contract for building their house as soon as the material was ready.

Mr Adkins is teaching the colored school at Clinton and is Commissioner of registration for that County (Anderson) and is represented as being a reliable man: I gave him him a guarantee that the amount appropriated $100.00 would be promptly paid when the when the work is completed.
 
[[strikethrough]] New Market [[/strikethrough]] Mossy Creek - was my next point. At this place a lot has been given the colored people by John R. Brauner Esqr. President of the East Tenn. & Va. R.R. and has made a good title to the same. the colored people have appointed the 2nd Friday in July to get out the framing timbers for their building, and have a subscription of $72.00 and have promised to raise it to $100.00, and to collect the money, with which they can secure the lumber necessary to complete their house which is to be 30 by 40: The colored people at this place have selected Esqr. J.M. Ashmore to act as their Agent, and I gave him a guarantee that as soon as the building is completed the appropriation of $300.00 will be promptly paid. this am't will pay the mechanic for his labor, and will nearly or quite pay the balance of purchase money on building material. Mr Ashmore is a thoroughly reliable union man.

New Market. - Spent one day here eneavoring to secure a lot on which the colored people could build their house but failed, as the property holders are principally rebel or conservative, and their prejudices are very strong against the advancement of the colored race, both moral and intellectual.