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Office State Superintendent of Public Education, La.

New Orleans, Nov. 25th 1864.

Maj. B Rush Plumley, President of the Board of Education for Freedmen

Dear Sir, 

On the 10th of September last I addressed a note to the Board respecting the occupation of the Parish district Schoolhouses by the colored Schools established by the Agents of the Board, to the exclusion of the white children and their Schools. In answer to that communication I was assured that the difficulty should be remedied and that there should be no collision between the two systems, as there should not be, and I concluded that the trouble was settled. But Mr. Bennie, a Public School Director of the parish of Terrebonne, informs me that they have not yet been able to obtain possession of their School houses, one in the village of Houma.