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Lt. J. T Kirkman, Supt of Education, authorized me to say, if the freedmen would subscribe, Five Hundred Dollars, the Bureau would furnish a like amount to erect a school building.
I had subscription lists gotten up, (a copy enclosed) & gave to to a dozen or more freedmen to obtain subscriptions-up to the time the warm made its appearance.  One Hundred & One Dollars was subscribed. After that, I called in the papers from the fact that the freedmen has nothing to pay with.
The only way I see that they can be assisted is for the Bureau to put up a building for school purposes.

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