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[[left hand margin]] Number of sick, old and infirm suffering from want.[[/left hand margin]] The former is supported by the municipal authority of Corinth, the other dependent upon the charity of the Community, and undoubtedly often suffers for want of food to sustain life.

[[left hand margin]]No. rations issued[[/left hand margin]]
No Rations were issued during the month; my stock of Provisions to supply the destitute people was exhausted in July.

[[left hand margin]]Schools, their number and condition[[/left hand margin]]
There are or were two schools in operation up to the 31st of August: one opened at Rienzo, Miss, on the first of August, with twenty-five pupils.  The school at Corinth, rapidly increasing in number, the children making every effort to advance in their respecting studies - this School closed on the 22nd of August with one hundred and six scholars, on account of the teacher George Hamilton, who was arrested and is now incarcerated for passing bogus U.S. drafts on the Citizens of Corinth. Two good teachers will be required to conduct this school successfully.

[[left hand margin]]Marital relations of the Freedmen[[/left hand margin]]
There is a strong disposition on the part of the inteligent freedpeople to elevate the standard of Morality, and are gradually evincing a desire to comply with all requirements of the marriage relations.

The disposition of the whites toward the colored people, is, in the main, good

Transcription Notes:
Rienzi Mississippi found, but not Rienza/o