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But the provision for pupils was repealed shortly afterwards, indeed before the experiment had been tried, without, however, raising the consular salaries in corresponding degree.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner laments the repeal of the provision for pupils before it could be properly evaluated, which did not correspondingly raise salaries.

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