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a thousand colored children are craving for an opportunity to attend school, while Mr Branch's present limited arrangements will accommodate about one-fifth of that number. I have done as I promised you at Montgomery, and have taken hold of the school matter until the best energy of which I am capable, but I have not felt like taking the responsibility of action steps in the matter of erecting and providing school buildings until there shall be som decision arrived at regarding the mooted transfer of the Marine Hospital in this city to the Bureau, for school purposes. If this building is not transferred, it will be very difficult to get a suitable building in the city there being but one that could be procured (an old hotel called the "Garner House") that would at all answer, and that being in such a state of dilapidation as to require a considerable outlay, which it is unlikely its owners would put upon it, for the purpose for which we want it, before it would be adapted to that purpose.
Two new schools at "Howards Landing", in Baldwin County, (At the latter place, the colored) people have built a school house calculated to accommodate fifty scholars. Mr. Branch has taken hold of the matter with his usual zeal and energy.
I shall do all in my power to stimulate and co-operate in the formation of schools at all points in this District where the project is feasible, and I think that a few months will show a decided advance in the present means and facilities for