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[[preprinted]] 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools.

10. Remarks.

* A pupil is not to be reported as enrolled until after five days' attendance.

(Signed)
Teacher of Freedmen's School at  [[/preprinted]]

*  This School is in effect the continuation of the School of the National Theological Institute and University taught during the last year on Louisiana Avenue, and consists, with very few exceptions, of the same pupils.

I regard myself as under appointment by the Executive Committee of that corporation located by Congress in the [forward] District of Columbia —  a new organisation [[underlined]] created in Boston [[/underlined]] in May last, and claiming to represent the corporation having no legal existence, and being without authority to act in its behalf.

The corporation, however, has given me no specific instructions with regard to the school for the present year, nor am I aware at what time they will resume the work of instruction, the new organisation having seized, for the time being, the funds of the corporation received from the government and from other sources, and interfering in the management of its affairs.

In the mean time, the students have gathered themselves into the Theological School which I am instructing, and for which I am individually responsible, the cooperating bodies being the [[underlined]] National Ed. Soc. [[/underlined]] the [[underlined]] Ladies' Ed. Soc. of Washington, [[/underlined]] and the organized and effiecient