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[[strikethrough]] in it. [[/strikethrough]] It is, also, aiding [[strikethrough]] to some extent [[/strikethrough]] in the completion of two others, in the same city. In New Berne it has completed a good one, and is building an other to be finished very soon; while in Lincolnton, Charlotte, Greensboro, Salisbury, Hillsboro, Raliegh, Goldsboro, New Berne, Morehead City, Beaufort, Wilmington and Fayetteville, the Benevolent Associations aided [[strikethrough]] aided in goodly measure [[/strikethrough]] by the Bureau, have provided, in several instances, good buildings,] and in all, buildings though temporary and in adequate in dimensions, still of incalculable service. [But in almost all of the smaller towns of the State, as well as the rural districts, there are as yet no school-houses.] There is such need of them, however, and this need is so deeply felt by the Freedmen, that it can not be long, in view of the assistance offered by the Government, before they will be built. 

With regard to the sites, on which the Bureau proposes to build houses, I understand the rule to be, as adopted by you that the title thereto must be clear and certain, and before buildings are erected thereon, must be vested by suitable legal methods, in a Board of Trustees, commonly called a Board of Education, who are to hold the property, land and building, in trust for school purposes. The rule is not observed