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to complete his contract, when he was informed there were only $10. in the treasury. From the best authority I could find, this was the fact. There had been only $115 due the colored children, $105 of which was expended in three months [[?]]nding nothing could be done towards continuing the school, as there was neither a room to be had or money, and the Board of Education and Trustees were unfriendly to a school; as a last resort, I asked of the Board of Education to allow the use of a school house, soon to be vacant, to the colored children, if the freedmen would sustain the school themselves, or partly by the aid of others who might be disposed to help. This house is just now used by the white children, but who will soon occupy a large & new school building. There is no use for it whatever; but the Board refused, and could only answer, that "if they had a school, more niggers would move into town, and they did not want what niggers they had got." It is undoubtedly true, that some would move into the village for the sake of educating their children.

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