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0301

Melbourne May 24th 1868

Capt. Sidney B. Smith

Dear Sir
In answer to your letter of the 11th instant I would state that the colored people in whose behalf I wrote to Col Lee have purchased a wood lot of half an acre to which they will get a deed as soon as they have an assurance that your Department will aid them in erecting a schoolhouse sufficiently large to accomodate their children. I think there are about seventy children who would attend this school as soon as the house is built. I think there are fifteen on my own estate, who are now taught irregulary by members of my

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