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to spend what means they had to spare on the work of finishing and improving our Ch with the two basement school rooms, and provided boarding accommodations can be secured for them, to send and maintain here four good teachers. 
4. The Radical Methodist and Baptist Colored churches, both have schools, which under pressure of denominational zeal "for their own color", are pretty well sustained, though taught by notoriously incompetent persons. They will probably hold together, one hundred scholars. 
5. The City Board of Ed, in conjunction with the City Council, I am informed by one of their number, design opening a school for 'colored children,' - but their enterprise, at this date, has not assumed a shape, suitable for me to report. 
6. Last Saturday we held an Election for School Directors, under the recent School law for this district, and chose two of the City Board, acting under a special