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hundred to two thousand children who should be achool next Winter who live within the circuit of two miles of Mill Creek bridge while the present accommodations are not sufficient for more than two thirds of that number. 

It seems to me that the time has come when school accommodations should be furnished to colored children equal to those provided for the whites and no longer crowd them into basements and barn-like structures. 

The Freedmen's Bureau is willing to accede to most any request which tends to facilitate the advancement and elevation of the colored people while the drain upon the energies and strength of the teachers, demands of those who have the power, the erection and furnishing of such structures and conveniences as will best promote the work.  

These facilities for school purposes will be needed continually and can be better supplied now than one year hence. The buildings mentioned above can be obtained without expense to the Asso. while six months hence to furnish similar structures will demand a heavy cash outlay