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Board of Education for Freedmen,
Department of the Gulf,
New Orleans, Sept 19" 1864

General,
The right of Occupancy in the School building on Common St. called the "School of Medicine", was granted last winter to Mr J. G. Hubbs, for the purpose of establishing a Mission School, to be supported by one of the Benevolent Societies of the North.
But in June last this "Mission School" ceased to exist, and it place was occupied by a Gov't Colored School, sustained, superintended, and paid by the Board of Education; and numbering at the present time more than five hundred pupils.
On Sunday the building is used by a large Sunday School under the superintendence of Chaplain Conway.
It has been recently ascertained that property, to a considerable amount, has been abstracted from this