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met your approval, which he did, stating that it had been approved in full. But this I could not make a basis of official action. The estimate itself has never been returned to me, or otherwise acknowledged, and the pressure of new cares has heretofore prevented me from writing to you fully in regard to it.

On the 6th of May, you wrote to me not to pay teachers out of the Refugees and Freedmen's' Fund, after the summer vacation, but to arrange to have them paid thereafter by benevolent associations.

On the 7th of May, I wrote to you, submitting an arrangement I had made to secure the Baptist College at Talladega as a Normal School for Freedmen.

On the 15th of May, this was returned