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There are several places in the Co where schools are much needed, and where a great amount of good might be done, but in consequence of the great prejudice existing against colored schools land cannot be purchased for that purpose. Last September an effort was made to establish one or two more schools in the Co. and a committee was selected to get a piece of land, either by purchase or by lease, but the committee met with no success, all persons having land to dispose of, wishing to understand, before any terms could be agreed upon, that it was not for school purposes for colored people. 
An application was also made to the Co. Court to allow them permission to use one or two of the unoccupied school Houses in the Co, but it was returned disapproved, on the ground that "by and by" the whites would want to use them, and to this day no steps have been made to use them 
and they are falling to pieces with decay for want of care. An invitation has been given to the adult portion of the colored people to attend night school, but they do not avail themselves of the opportunity to any extent, and those who do attend are not very regular, and often there is but three or four in attendance. The same attention is paid to their instructions as if there were a larger number. 
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