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and, also the city school buildings the present prospect is most agreeable. The United States Government has turned over several disused barrack buildings, and the societies above named are furnishing money for removing and constructing school rooms and quarters for teachers.
  
In Natchez two school rooms have been built - one by subscription and the other by the Western Board of the Freedmans Aid Commission. Two barrack buildings also have been appropriated to this purpose by the Government.
  
A [[strikethrough]] general [[/strikethrough]] temporary provision has been made for the accommodation of a school out of military huts given by the Government this has been done at the expense of the American Missionary Association with some help from the colored people.

At Jackson the society of friends has built four school-houses at considerable expense and rebuilt them in another place when the State authorities demanded them removed. Had it not been for the kindness of two northern men who happened to own some land at Jackson it would have been impossible, apparently, to