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Your petitioners see no means of saving and elevating the remnant of the race, except that of educating our youth. We have therefore taken Councel, and have determined to petition your Honorable House for a grant, of money, sufficient to erect a suitable School house at Shubenacadie, to furnish it with school apparatus, and to support a teacher. Our wish is that the School may be under the control of the School Commissioners, and that the Superintendant of Education should be consulted in the selection of a teacher. Your Petitioners therefore not deeming it necessary to multiply words in the case __ humbly pray your Honorable House to take our circumstances and our Petition into careful consideration, and to make such provision for the education of our children and youth, as you, in your wisdom may deem meet. And your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.