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School No 1 Demopolis is kept in a very temporary building erected by the Confederate Government. One half of this building is set apart as an African Methodist Church, and the other half fitted up for two school rooms: one of these I have hired for $15 per month and fitted it up at a cost of $15 for repairs

It is situated on a lot of half an acre of land bought by subscription and on the opposite side of the street from the six acre lot known as the church and school property: on which six acre lot is a substantial double house built by the Confederate government for public offices, but now occupied on the one side by the School teacher and on the other by the Pastor of the African Baptist Church and teacher of school No 2; while the balance of such school and church land is cut up into small lots and either occupied free of rent by local African Methodist preachers or rented out at $15 each, and the rent