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Chapel Hill
[July 8, 1800]

Dear Sir,
Some difficulty hath
already occured with respect
to the precise sum that new
students are to pay me for
board this session - In conse-
quence of the apportionment made
in December last of the fifty
seven dollars i e thirty four &
twenty three some think who
now are entering that they
ought only to pay twenty three,
I think otherwise; it strikes
me the just sum they ought
to pay is 28% the one half of
the whole sum, because were
they not to do so, some inconveni
ence might possibly arise.
suppose/