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Gallatin Tenn Sept 20th 1867 Revd D Burt D Sir Your favour of the 17th Inst is at hand And in reply would say the people here are very anxious to have a school. But we think we ought to have the privalege of selecting our own Teachers, as the white people have manifested such a deep Interest in our welfare and school, since the abandonment of commission school. We would be glad to have all the assistance the commissioner would pleased to render us in money or otherwise but would deem it as a great favour to allow us to