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London Township. There are ninety colored scholars in this township, seventy three of whom are in districts nos. 4 & 5, and could be accommodated by a house at Chappel Furnace.

Chappel Furnace. The Board proposed to [[strikethrough]] build [[/strikethrough]] rebuild an old, tumbled-down log house, at an expence of $300, with the understanding through Mr. E.T. Moore, that the Bureau would furnish $200 towards it. I was not authorized to give it for a log house. I proposed that they build after the plan submitted, offering $200 form the Bureau, and to raise $50 or more from the freedmen. The estimated cost of a house 20 ft. by 32 ft., judging by houses they have built, was $650, thus leaving about $400 for them to furnish. This they finally declined to accept for the following alleged reasons. The tax levy for $1867 amounts to only $1300 (it is only 30 [[strikethrough]] per [[/strikethrough]] cents on the $100, instead of 50 cents, which the law allows), while they have already contracted, for [[strikethrough]] built [[/strikethrough]] or built this season, six school houses, at a cost of about $3600 of which $1100 must be borrowed now. They say the colored scholars can wait till