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of next month. At that time it is to be hoped, that a good and efficient School will be commenced.

(I did not find Major Norton able to report a single School anywhere in the eleven Counties composing his Sub-District. Nor did he know, that the School at Morgantown had closed, till I informed him, although the house in which it had been taught is not over fifty yards from his office. No teacher has been required to make reports to him from his School; nor has he himself made reports to the Superintendens of the State, with regard to educational affairs among the Freedmen; and this is all according to his own statement. I would respectfully suggest that Major Norton be ordered to give special, personal attention to this work of education in his Sub-District.) For as far as I can learn the white people of this part of North Carolina generally are in no wise opposed to the education of the Freedmen; and the Freed-