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There are several cases where negroes have worked a year or more, earning from fifty to a hundred dollars, and are not able to collect a cent, can I help them? In Stephen Dents case, even if the theft was committed, which I see every reason to doubt, I do not see why J. James should refuse to pay for the three months' labor and now it seems a little hard for him to work a year for that 'nolle prosequi'; can any thing be done?

June 1st  Thursday evening, I met about fifty Freedmen and as may whites in the Court House, explained my mission, told them what they must do &c

A committee was chosen to get contributions for repairing the building I have hired for a time, at eight dollars per month.

Yesterday the com. obtained over twenty dollars, which will be no more than enough to procure seats, blackboard &c; a large part was given by white citizens; also four or five men and boys worked all day, getting the wretched old flea-inhabited building ready for a school.

At the same meeting, another com. was chosen, at the suggestion of Judge Spence, to solicit subscriptions toward buying the 'Old Acad,' for a permanent school-house, with the expectation that if the purchase money is raised here, either the Bureau or A.M.A. would repair it; it is needless for me to say anything in regard to the desirableness of such a result; which would, in my opinion, secure a permanent school: I have good grounds for believing that the $200 can be raised here, as several prominent whites have promised to give liberally, & the negroes are enthusiastic in the matter.

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