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promise of liberal aid from the Asst Commissioner at Richmond, probably $4,000 00/100 or $5,000 00/100 per annum. Inasmuch as excellent schools have been kept up in this city by Northern societies, for all the pupils offering, and inasmuch as the same public journals which have with persistence and indecent language, slandered the excellent teachers sent here from the North, are now aiding the proposed measures of the city authorities. I therefore look upon the scheme as an effort to keep out Northern teachers, and no appropriation by the Bureau will be recommended by me, until the authorities prove the integrity of their purpose in the matter.

Respectfully Submitted,
J.R. Stone
Sub. Asst. Comm.

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