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four flourishing schools each with over sixty scholars on its rolls, but is excessively open, and uncomfortable in winter, being too large to warm sufficiently in cold weather.  Hence the winter work has not been satisfactory, and the large central space in it, so well adapted for general exercises has been wholly unavailable.  The means of ceiling the sides and overhead are asked with a view of making this building, which stands on land forever devoted to educational purposes, suitable for the great and long continued usefulness which it [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] promises to afford in this well populated region.

It is very important to have desks in freedmen's school houses so that their children can learn to write: they are now, beyond Hampton totally unprovided for.  In order to render it practicable to teach writing - than which no branch is of near importance, especially to freedmen -

I deem the amount ($500.00) asked for reasonable; and necessary for the proper conduct of schools.