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mode of sale at auction of above buildings, and in this connection urge upon the commissioner Maj Gen. O. O. Howard the pressing need of retaining the ward now occupied by teachers for their quarters and school rooms, to be used in the future for similar purposes. The land upon which the building now stands is in the hands of administration and it will be impossible to perfect arrangements for leasing land in less time than a month. The Freedman of Farmville had purchased an old church building before my return here, which building will be placed upon the lot owned by them and so prevent erection of school house thereon, from lumber of one of above named hand, and means to purchase a school site cannot be raised at present.
If the building now occupied as a school can be retained, I am informed that the Penna. Par. of the T.Y.C. will support teachers here next season, and with the large number of children, the poverty of the parents, and the apathy or opposition of citizens in educating colored people, I cannot put this request into language sufficiently strong on behalf of the educational and moral interests of the