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building in this Dist, and to establish schools at all points in this Dist, there will be needed some ten or eleven school houses.

Suitable buildings for school purposes cannot be rented in this Dist, the buildings now used for schools are not suitable, being often log cabins.

The colored people at Ashville St Clair County have commenced to erect a school building; at the other points in this Dist the colored people are unable to do much towards building, but are making efforts to raise means for that purpose.

The colored people are unable to conduct and sustain the work of education among themselves without further assistance.

The only way that new schools can be organized in this District, is by building being erected and teachers furnished them.

The American Missionary Association are operating at Talladega in this Sub Dist.
I would respectfully recommend that Mrs. E.S. Thompson be employed to teach the school at Columbiana1 Shelly County