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also declared that Cameron the person who wrote the petition and letter was willing to undertake the tuition of the Indian children for the £15

It appears to me that £26 is a very moderate sum for building the school house and paying the master: but yet it is equal to one half of the entire amount hitherto allowed for the releif [relief] of the Indians in this part of the Island - and if it should be deducted from that allowance the diminution would be sensibly felt by the aged, sick, and destitute, and indeed by the Indians generally.

I am persuaded that they do not contemplate any such consequence, but suppose that the £25 is to be given for the school house and tuition of their Children, without reducing the measure of relief to which they have been accustomed.

Of course I could not assure them of the fulfilment of this expectation, not even knowing as yet that any grant will be made for the Indian service this year: but I offered them, as I had before proposed to several, to furnish nails, glass, [sashes?], bricks, &c provided they would prepare the frame, boards, shingles, and put up the building for the school house. As, however, I could not promise them, with
certainty