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amount.  I have lectured to these people and advised them to buy land and Educate their children and themselves, and to make their School Houses look like they belonged to Freemen and they are hard at work at them and this year all the the (7) School Houses in this County will be finished complete and the most of them fenced in and nicely whitewashed.  These people certainly have done well and in connection with others deserve great credit.  There are other cases of apprentices in this County but I have not had time to attend to them.  

St. Mary's County.  The colored people of this have improved very much the past year and any one acquainted with them can soon see that the schools and lectures have done something for these people a year ago when one would have a congregation of these people they would come drunk, but