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VII. The City of San Antonio has a free school System which is to be applied as well to the Colored as the white race, the arrangements are now being made, and the property and its income would be worth infinitely more to the City of San Antonio in the carrying out of these duties than to the U.S. Government

I may well contend that the legal as well as the equitable fee to the land is still in the City of San Antonio. The improvements upon it were made by a third party and a Stranger to the right and interest of the City of San Antonio as well as of the U.S. Government  They were made in fraud of the political as well as the private rights of the parties immediately interested and the law will leave them just where it found them. The Government of the U.S. does not desire to do wrong.

The representations made to its Officers so far as I can learn have been entirely exparte and I have respectfully to ask a thorough