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Office State Superintendent of Public Education, La. 
New Orleans, Sept. 10th 1864. 

To the Board of Education for Colored Schools, Dept. of the Gulf:

Gentlemen:
Complaints have been made to me by certain School Directors, that when they have wished to open their regular district Schools, in some cases they have found the School houses occupied by colored Schools, established by your agents, and they, as the provost marshals are unwilling to give them up to their rightful owners and occupants.  As an instance, the public school directors of the parish of Terrebonne wishing to establish their regular schools in the districts of Houmas and one near Terrebonne Station, the houses were promptly and persistently refused them by the provost marshal.