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property, and a poll tax of $1.00 per head not collected. At Hopkinsville there was a single School of 40 scholars taught in the Methodist Church and supported by tuition. The Bureau School building in that place is located about a mile and a half from the centre of the city, beyond the fair grounds; inconvenient and inaccessible in the winter to all except a few persons who live in the suburbs of the city. The excuse, I learn, for thus locating the building was the fact that no site could be obtained in the city limits. In Louisville during the past School year ending June 30th the city authorities appropriated the moneys raised from the tax above mentioned in supporting Schools in the various churches. This year this money has been concentrated and the children all gathered in the Ely Normal School building ,-leased from the American Missionary Association. The school I regret to say is in charge of young and inexperienced teachers. As the beginning of a public School system, perhaps, it may be considered good. The trustees desire me to say that erelong they will request your influence in enabling them to purchase this building from the A.M.A. for a moderate sum. At Covington, from want of agreement among the colored people as to the location of their School, (produced by Sectarianism) thus far they have not been able to avail themselves of the use of the public money. 
[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]