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[[strikeout]] and the association  [[/strikeout]] has bought and paid for three acres of land at Swansborough  [[Swansboro]] and have the material out of which to construct a large building for school purposes.  Mr Beul informs be that he is now unable to go forward with the building for for the want of the necessary funds; For he cannot call upon the Freedmen to do this work without paying them daily.  They are very poor and in no otherwise would they be able to feed themselves and their families.  On a plantation, some five miles from here up the North river there are some sixty children to be gathered into a School.  The Freedmen there have bought a site for a School House and are waiting for assistance.  The American Missionary Association, has material out of which to construct a building at this point  At Harbors Creek, also,  twelve miles distant from Beaufort on the road toward New Berne there are nearly one hundred children for whose education the association would be glad to make provision at once if possible.  Four hundred and fifty dollars are siad to be needed for the buildings at Swansborough. and three hundred and fifty for the building at the other points named.
  The matter of Education among the Freedmen