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scale for a small farm should be purchased, and that the inmates of the Asylum should, like those of most other institutions of the Kind be taught manual labor at the same time they receive the rudiments of a common education.

I believe the benefit of the institution thus managed would not be limited to its inmates, but would be a means of improving the agricultural knowledge of the freedmen, throughout that section of the State, and thus advance their interests in a very material degree. 

On my return to this place from Lauderdale I found a communication from your office dated the 8th inst. directing that the control of the Asylum be transferred to the "Friends of the Yearly Meeting of Indiana.-"

I have taken the liberty to delay the execution of that