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from 25, to 200 boys & girls, between the ages of 10 & 14  I will have their cooking & washing done & sleeping apartments kept in order 

have a school house erected & employ a teacher on each place where they are located & will agree to feed cloth, pay Doctors bill, & have them [[strikethrough]] Covered [[/strikethrough]] instructed to read write, & in the common rules in arithmetic.  these children boys & Girls to be apprenticed to me until they are of age.  now, General if you cant supply me with a goodly number from Augusta, yourself & you can [[strikethrough]] get [[/strikethrough]] get a young man in Augusto to, interest himself to get them