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[In many places, in this State, the buildings used for  school purposes are very poor, being wanting in capacity as well as such construction and arrangement as to make them convenient and desirable. This is true of the buildings in Hillsboro and Fayetteville, Chapel Hill and Goldsboro, Newton and Catawba stations, not to mention other places and several of the buildings used in Raleigh, New Berne, Moorehead City and Wilmington. This difficulty, however, will, to some extent, be remedied soon by the erection of commodious and convenient school-houses in every county of the State in accordance with a Circular letter of [[?]]. The Assistant Commissioner] has already issued a Circular Letter, on this subject, and proposes to push the work with all reasonable dispatch. Nor is it to be forgotten that already, either ¶ School Houses have already been built by the Bureau or some Benevolent Association of the North [[strikethrough]] [school-houses, though merely temporary in most instances, have been built [[/strikethrough]] in many of the more prominent places of the State. In Raleigh the Bureau has completed a very beautiful and convenient one, with two rooms [[strikethrough]] in its [[/strikethrough]] and is building a second, much larger, two stories high. [[strikethrough]] in hight (which is nearly finished), [[/strikethrough]] with four large and commodious rooms