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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers ALS Con. 86 BTW Papers DLC. Written on stationery bearing C. N. Dorsette's letterhead. ~ Presumably Mrs. Charles L. Mead, wife of a New York businessman and officer of the American Missionary Association. 2 Ada Scott, a student at Tuskegee from Lowndesboro, Ala., from 1886 to 1890, never graduated. 3 The Alabama legislature passed and the governor signed on Deb. o5, 1887, House Bill god, which provided for the creation of the ''Alabama Colored People's University.'' Eight trustees appointed by the governor were to select the new site and sell the property of the Marion school. The trustees were free to pick any site except that ''no place shall be selected against the wishes of the people of said place,'' and ''the commissioners shall have regard to the proper distribution of schools for the colored people.'' The school was to receive $~o,ooo for land and buildings and $7,500 a year for expenses. (Acts of the General Assembly of Alabama, `886-87, ~g8-co~.) 4 Also approved on Feb. ~5, 1887, was Senate Bill 199, authorizing ''conveyances and devises of lands to trustees for the use of the Tuskegee Normal School. . . .'' The act gave the trustees as a group the power to buy, hold, and protect the title to land used for the purposes of the school, and, therefore, apparently extracted some power from the three-man board of commissioners, which was responsible solely to the state superintendent of education. Though the three commissioners served on the board of trustees, there were at this time six other trustees. The act was careful to limit to landholding the grant of power, stipulating that the ''trustees shall have no authority to control the operation of said school, or in any manner to interfere with the management thereof.'' (Ibid., 940-4~.) From Benjamin Winston Walkers Montgomery, Feby 4th 1887 Dear Sir One of the most important bills for the colored people passed with favorable report from our Committee on public buildings this A.M. & will be up for passage at once. A bill to erect suitable buildings at Tuskaloosa for the Colored insane of this state.2 The committee appropriated $20,000 for the buildings. I will nurse the normal school bill which you are interested in and shall urge its being removed to Green County.3 I want you to think of the propriety of going up North & seeing if you cant get up a land co. Yours Truly B W Walker ALS Con. 88 BTW Papers DLC. Benjamin Winston Walker (~848-~907) represented Macon County in the 332