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Committees &c, from which you will be enabled to learn the character of our school system, and its adaptability to the colored children. Indeed, from the re-organization of the system in 1852, to the present time, we have had a school for Creoles in the city and one in the Country, [[strikethrough]] in [[\strikethrough]] successfully conducted and operating in harmony with the schools for whites. There is not the slightest reason to fear that it cannot be indefinitely extended, if the board is is put in possession of adequate means.
The schools have been, so far, supported chiefly by taxation, and by a small charge for tuition. The latter, however, it is very desirable, should be removed from the lower departments, this fall, and from most of the higher, as soon as the means of the board will allow. But the report send you will show what has been, and is still, the policies of the board on this Send you will show what has been, and is still the policies of the board on this subject, and to them I Respectfully refer you.
I shall be glad to hear from you at your earliest convenience, and I avail myself of the occasion to say, that any further information you may desire, I shall be happy to communicate, in furtherance of the great and important duty of extending education to all classes of our people.
I am Sir, very respectfully
your obt servt
C.T. Bradford
Secretary