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removing, transporting & re-erecting the same at Stevenson? You know we have a 20 acre lot there laid out as a village for Freedmen - of which 2 acres is reserved for school purposes. It was on this site that the New school house was burnt. 

To what extent we shall be able as a commission to go on with our work in educating the colored people or whether at all indeed is still uncertain. The only difficulty is that of raising money. In the general depression of business this is a most serious obstacle. And yet I feel that now, perhaps, as much as ever before, the work ought to go on. The inducements to do so were never stronger. In