Appealing for additional pay to the scale on which they are paid - exactly the same as that in Akwapim. They argue 1. that foodstuffs are much more expensive because the Akims are not conscientious farmers 2, that paying in golddust rather than…
Asking for a further grant for the building of their catechist's house - they had already received £30. Mohr in a subscript does not recommend this after the history of the Fankyeneko house.
Asks for a middle school in Akim on the grounds that the Akwapim teachers in Akropong look after their own people better than they do the Akims (this calls the Middle School a Grammar School).
Asks for re-instatement claiming that he has not done this before on the grounds that his mother in law would not permit his wife to become a Christian, but now she is dead. His account of the troubles of the 1870s is that he was not received with…
Petition for posting to Akropong to enable him to look after his children. In his comment on this Eisenschnid, as Twi district Praeses, remarks that almost all the local workers in the mission like sooner or later to work in their home town, and…
Asks to send him, by Isaac Tisnyahu (?) petroleum, the money, wick, worm medicine for Kwasi Adae, matches, one bundle-of needles. He also complains at the travelling allowance of 6d a day, claiming that everyone else gets 9d a day.
Asking for consideration of the fact that they have a long distance to go to their homes in Akwapim, and there is a long distance to go to the coast for salt etc., while Akim paths are bad and bearers can only be hired-for 6d-9d per day. Also their…
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