A letter indicating David Pickler's response to Mr. John Stone's request for a teaching certificate. Transcription: March 13th 1849 Mr John H. Stone Sir, I am not prepared to send you another Certificate, nor do I think that I could write another less objectionable, than the one I have already written. As regards the numbers and names of the Scholars, I have not known heretofore that it is the duty of the Teachers to annex ? them to his Certificate, but that it is the duty of the Committee to report this, and other facts relative to the School. If there be any act making such a requisition on the Teacher, passed at the last Session, it cannot possibly affect the Schools, which were taught prior to the passing of this act. My School, as you will see from the dates, was commenced and finished within the last year, and certainly no act passed at the last Session could have been in force then. Why did Kirkpatrick of Cabarrus, a few months ago, accept of me a Certificate precisely of the same form as the one which I sent to you? And why are the same forms accepted of elsewhere? I send to you the same Certificate again for the money, and I think you should by all means send it without raising any objections. Respectfully yours, David Pickler