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to the colored citizens by the civil authorities then heretofore

The freedmen in this Sub District seem anxious to have schools, but the majority are unable to do much towards their support and the buildings that have been used during the summer months for school purposes are unfit for winter and it will be very difficult, and in most of the places, they will be unable to get suitable buildings to teach in.

The normal school at this place will commence its session on the 1st of October, and I am informed by  Mr. Brown the Superintendent that there will be some hundred and ten pupils and he expects to be able to send out next year some forty or fifty teachers. The most of the teachers that have been teaching in this District during the last four months were pupils of this school last year, and have closed their schools to attend this year, and more fully fit themselfs to teach another season. 
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