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under the patronage of some benevolent institution, to see if he would take charge of it, which he declined to do, unless he was paid Twelve hundred dollars a year, and had a horse and carriage kept for him by the Government.

At that rate he was not employed, but convalescent and disabled soldiers were taken from the neighboring hospitals.

In the changes about being made in the Freedmans Department, I am informed that the Society with which Mr Day is connected, are proposing to take that School in their hands.

One objection to Mr Day, was in my mind at the time I attempted to negotiate with him viz: that his society was of a given sect. - That objection would still continue.

I think the school should be continued under