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if any people ever did, on account of their efforts and appreciation of what is done for them. 
I wish you could have seen how they contributed in their deep poverty to make up the amount of twenty five dollars cash which I told them was necessary before the writings could be made for the acad. 
The Trustees have twenty five dollars in cash, a subscription of seventy five dollars by whites, a subscription of over a hundred & thirty dollars by blacks, from all of which sources we expect to pay for the building and do much of the work of repairing; we must look to the Bureau