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Normal Schools Continued -

a uniform system of instruction for the colored people of the State, and having confidence in its newly formed Delaware Association, placed at its disposal the premises owned, and the income of such funds as they held for the purposes.  The value of the property thus transferred was supposed to be $3,000.00 $4000.

The Freedmens Bureau appropriated about $1,200 to alter the building and make it suitable for new purposes to which it was to be devoted. 
About the last of September, 1867 - the building was completed, and on the 3rd of October it was, dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.

2nd The Normal School in Maryland

On December 16th 1867, the Normal School for Md, was opened in Baltimore.  The building is in an eligible situation, and was purchased from a Society of Friends whose place of Worship it formerly was.  It has school room for one hundred pupils, with classrooms, and a large Hall for Lecture purposes.  The original building was repaired by the Bureau at a cost of $10,000.  The Normal School proper has some 33 pupils: and the Model School (to be taught by the Normal Scholars) has 23 pupils.