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6. Considering the disadvantages under which the Freedmen's Schools for the Sub District, labor, they are doing remarkably well. The teacher are earnest and competent in a high degree, and the children of freedmen flock to them for instruction, in such numbers, that on half of them are admitted and instructed in the forenoon and the other half in the afternoon; and even under the arrangement, applicants for admission are turned away almost every day for want of room to accommodate or provide for them in the school buildings. The buildings now in use, are not only inadequate in size, but they are also such shabby, dingy affair, as to be hardly suitable for the occupancy of horses. a large permanent and well arranged school building for colored children, is greatly needed in Huntsville, and it occurs to me to inquire if the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama cannot take the business in hand and cause its erection during the approaching summer or early autumn?

The Freedmen of this section have all made their arrangements for the year and from reports which have reached me from