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The Bureau has paid

Salary of Supt of Education | $150,00
Transportation of Teachers and Supt. | 33.15
Rent of School Houses | 501.66
Repairs of School Houses | 37.00
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Amount for Educational Schools | $721.81

Material used in Industrial Schools | $1969.83
Making Garments and for Matrons in Industrial Schools | 1645.19
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Amount for Industrial Schools | $3615.02

Total | $4336.83

Industrial Schools

Four (4) Industrial Schools are reported; two which have been in operation have failed to report. Number of scholars in the four reported, four hundred and twelve (412).  No. of garments made, thirty hundred and forty-six (3046).

Educational Schools

The total number of Day and Night Schools reported this month, is one hundred and forty two (142), one hundred and ten (110) day, and thirty-two (32) night. No. of Teachers, one hundred and ninety-seven (197), of whom one hundred and thirty are white, and sixty seven colored. No. of Scholars, seventy-six hundred and five (7605). There are also in operation twenty-two schools not reported, having ten hundred and forty-six (1046) Scholars, and twenty-eight (28) Teachers; of the latter ten are white and eighteen (18) colored. These, with those reported, make the whole number of Schools in this Department one hundred and sixty-four (164); No. of Teachers, two hundred and twenty-five (225); No. of Scholars eighty-six hundred and fifty-one (8651) showing an increase of two hundred and fifty-one (251) scholars to the number reported in February.

Fourteen teachers report an average attendance of ninety per cent, and over. The following are the names of the teachers with the per cent of their schools, viz:

[[underlined]] Rev. S. B. Gregory [[/underlined]] | 92 per cent | [[underlined]] Mrs. E. H. Desbrow [[/underlined]] 93½ per cent
[[underlined]] Mr. J. St. Combes [[/underlined]] | 94 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | [[underlined]] Miss C. F. Wittington [[/underlined]] 93 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]
[[underlined]] Miss M. S. Hawes [[/underlined]] | 93 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | " [[ditto for Miss [[underlined]] R. J. Cooke [[/underlined]] 93 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]
" [[ditto for Miss]] [[underlined]] E. A. Chamberlain [[/underlined]] | 90 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | " [[ditto for Miss [[underlined]] G. I. Fleet [[/underlined]] 90 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]
" [[ditto for Miss]] [[underlined]] Abby C. Ford [[/underlined]] | 97 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | " [[ditto for Miss [[underlined]] M. R. Mann [[/underlined]] 90 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]
" [[ditto for Miss]] [[underlined]] Dora A. Hardy [[/underlined]] | 95 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | " [[ditto for Miss [[underlined]] S. A. Simmons [[/underlined]] 91 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]
" [[ditto for Miss]] [[underlined]] Annie T. Smith [[/underlined]] | 92 " " [[dittoes for per cent]] | " [[ditto for Miss [[underlined]] C. W. Moore [[/underlined]] 100 " " [[dittoes for per cent]]

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Thirty six (36) teachers report that they have started Temperance Societies in their schools. The aggregate number belonging to these societies is twelve hundred and ninety four (1294).

I have spent one week in Jefferson and Berkley Counties West Virginia, and in Washington Co. Maryland. The Normal School at Harper's Ferry is made up mostly of children who would be properly members of the intermediate department in a grade school. A very few young men and women have come in from other towns to study, and they no doubt have teaching in view. The school is well taught by Miss [[underlined]] Smith, [[/underlined]] the Principal, and her Assistant, but unless it increases in size I think the services of one teacher may be dispensed with.

Nothing has been done by the School Commissioners of Harper's Ferry for the education of colored children. Legal proceedings have been instituted against them, and the verdict is so certain that they have now promised to do their duty if these proceedings are stayed. Capt. [[underlined]] Brubaker, [[/underlined]] Sub-Asst. Comr., has refused their request, believing that the effect of a decision of this case by the Judge will be beneficial in other places.

At Martinsburg, an excellent school is taught in a very poor building, but the fine new school-house will soon be completed and occupied. Mr. [[underlined]] Matthews, [[/underlined]] one of the School Board, assisted me in holding a meeting in the evening which was crowded.

The teacher at Charlestown, is obliged to board with a colored family, as there is no white family in town willing to endure the "disgrace of boarding a teacher of a nigger school." She bravely perseveres in her work nevertheless, and has one of the most promising schools in this District. A large number of the former voters in this town are now disfranchised. They say it is hard that they have not only to lose their slaves, but also be taxed for their education. If it is hard, it is right, and we are glad to say that taxes gathered from such parties, in good part, furnish the money to pay the teacher of the colored school, and to aid in building a beautiful brick school-house, which will soon be completed.

At Hagerstown and Clear Spring, Md., with Capt. [[underlined]] J. C. Brubaker, [[/underlined]] I held meetings with the colored people, and urged them to build school-houses, which are very much needed, their schools now being in basements of churches. At the meeting in Hagerstown, over $200,00 was subscribed. An excellent lot has been given by a white lady, and if the people will agree to work, and work