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and it is open, and too cold for a school room. The rent, too ($15. per month) for this room, paid by the Bureau, is poorly invested. The Intermediate department is taught by Mr. Robert Harris, the Supt. of the schools here for the American Missionary Association, in an old farm building, standing in the rear of Evans Chapel, and very near it. This is a poor building, ill constructed for any purpose, and especially so for a School House. The seats and desks in this school room do very well. They were furnished by the Bureau about a year ago, when this school was first opened by Mr. Harris. The rooms in this building, however, are too small; they are already crowded, and do not answer the demands of the school. For this building the Bureau pays a monthly rent of ten dollars. It would be far better if the money paid for this and the other building, were applied to the erection of a large and commodious school-building such as would meet the wants of the Freed people of this place. It is just to state, that the Bureau stands ready to erect such a building as soon as the people will furnish a site for it. Bvt. Lt. Col. Thos. P. Johnston, Chf. Q. M. & D. Officer, was here last Saturday on this very matter. The leading