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Goldsboro N.C.
Nov 6th 1867

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bu R.F. and A.L.
Washington D.C.

General;--  I have the honor to report according to Special Order No 160 that upon a full and thorough inspection of Educational Affairs among Freedmen of this place, I find a School opened here for their benefit September 30th  1867 under the patronage of the Philadelphia Friends Freedmens Association, taught by Mr James E. O'Hara assisted by Miss Ester E. Glasgow, Miss Georgiana Rumbly all colored.  This school numbers in its enrollment one Hundred and two pupils with an average daily attendance of ninety two.  The School bears the name of "Wilberforce School" in the honor of the great English Reformer and Abolitionist. 
  I find here, also, a night school taught by three teacher numbering eighty three with an average attendance of seventy two.  
   These Schools are free, as to tuition.  A charge of twenty cents per month for Scholars to meet the Incidental Ex