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Faculty, and in school, with a single exception by the newspapers of Mobile, culminated among persons of less responsibility in acts of incendiary violence.

In July the Methodist Church on St. Michaels Street into which our school had been removed, was set on fire and burned down. 

In August the Presbyterian Church on Dauphin Street, also occupied by a school, after an amount of petty violence greatly impairing its usefulness was finally destroyed by the same agent of hostility.

In November of December, the Zion Methodist Church shared the same fate.- directly after a military order restoring possession to the congregation previously excluded by white Trustees.

These are but the salient points of a continuous series of lesser outrages and interruptions. Towards the
end of July the burning of buildings occupied by negroes became so prevalent as to call out public protests lest it "might cut both ways." This undoubted disposition of the Mayor of this city to bring the perpetrators to justice has been apparently thwarted by public sentiment, no arrests have been made in any instance within the knowledge of the Bureau,

The attempt to remove the schools was therefore abandoned, but every facility was ordered to be given