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made, and uniformly with gratifying success. There is very little doubt but that half of the money required will be raised among the colored people, leaving the benevolent societies to pay only half of the salaries promised. This plan will also lead to more interest, on the part of the people, in their schools. They will get a good lesson in regard to supporting and managing their own institutions.
 
I have also had correspondence with the proper officers of the Bureau, to secure information, and to get preparation made for the accommodation of schools and teachers. I am not able to say yet what success will be met with in each place; but have heard good reports from several. It is not necessary to burden this report with such details. I very much fear that in some places difficulty in procuring the requisite buildings will arise from the enmity of the whites to the blacks. We find very many who offer all the opposition they can to this work. The colored people are excluded from buildings which they fairly own in whole or in part.