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You are directed to visit and inspect, as far as possible, the follow- 

 ing schools in western and northern Alaska: Unalaska, St. Michael, 

 Unalakleet, Golofnin, Teller, Port Clarence, Cape Prince of Wales, 

 Kotzebue, and Gambell (St. Lawrence Island). Upon your return 

 from the Berino; wSea region you will visit and inspect, as far as possil)le, 

 the schools in southeastern Alaska. 



Your actual necessary expenses on tliis tour of inspection (railroad 

 and sleeping-car fare, steamship fare, and subsistence) will l)e paid 

 from the appropriation "Schools outside incorporated towns, lUaska." 



Y'ou are authorized and instructed on your journey across the con- 

 tinent to stop at all places where you have business in the interests 

 of your work to transact. 



Very respectful}}", yours, 



W. T. Harris, Commissioner. 



Mr. William Hamilton, 



Assistant Agent of Education in Alasl^a, 



Washington, D. C. 



Department of the Interior, 



Bureau of Education, 



Washington, D. C, June 8, 1904. 

 Dear Sir: After inspecting the public and industrial schools in 

 Alaska designated in my letter to jou of June 4, you wiU make a tour 

 of the Y'ukon Valley, visiting the leading native villages, and where 

 the school population is sufficient in number to justify the establish- 

 ment of a school 5^ou are authorized to arrange for the erection of 

 necessary school buildings and the selection of a suitable teacher. 



Where you arrange for a building, keep in mind that the combined 

 cost of a school building and teacher's residence is not to exceed 

 $3,000. 



In the majority of places selected for schools it is probable it will 

 be necessary to construct the buildings of logs, and on that account 

 it may be possible for you to arrange with some responsible trading 

 company to erect the log buildings at a much lower price than frame 

 buildings would cost. 



Where you fail to find a suitable teacher in the community, tele- 

 graph this Office, in order that the teacher may be sent from the States 

 in time for the opening of school in the fall. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



W^. T. Harris, Commissioner. 

 Iklr. William Hamilton, 



Assistant Agent of Education in Alaska, 



Washington, D. C. 



