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Preparations are being made by the colored people to have a school house erected near Kinsale Westmoreland Co. 

In the 5th Division there is one school with prospects of having others. At Lottsburg a building for school purposes is being erected by the Colored people.

A white lady teacher from the North has lately arrived for the purpose of organizing a school in Lancaster Co.

A large and substantial building, well adapted for school and religious purposes has been erected - situated about three miles from Heathesville - in which there is a large prosperous school taught by a lady from the North - $200.00 was appropriated to this building by the Bureau.

The freedmen throughout my Sub District are using every effort in their power to establish and support schools - their will is good but means too limited to carry on the work as they wish. The whites generally

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