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The Association has agreed to furnish for every school house or building erected or secured, a teacher, or teachers, as the work demands.

The Association in its present condition of funds, with the prospects of donations hereafter, cannot with proper regard to the welfare of all concerned, send a force of teachers into the state to lay idle for months, and perhaps, many of them not to be employed at all, for the want of school houses.

I have accepted for you this arrangement, regarding it as sound in principle, and all, that you could ask or wish from the Association.

¼ of the teachers supplied, will be males if possible, but the experience of the past, has shown great difficulty in obtaining competent moral men, white or black, as teachers.

The work is purely mission labor, and proceeds from a love of souls, and an earnest desire to do good, and is not a work in