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[[left margin]] Schools, Number & Condition [[/left margin]]
There are at present but two schools for Freedmen in this Sub-District, both at Grenada, and both in a prosperous condition. The teachers are efficient, the system admirable, and the scholars progress satisfactory in all respects. 

There is such small provision for education in their Sub-District that the matter calls urgently for the attention of the Bureau. The white people are not only willing but desirous of having schools established, and there needs only a proper superintendence of the matter, to start schools all over the Sub-District. It is impossible for the Sub Assistant Commissioner to leave the duties of the office to travel over the five large counties comprised in the Sub-District of Grenada, and personally attend to establishing schools unless he neglects entirely for several weeks the applicants who daily crowd to the office. Yet, the necessity for educating the Freedmen is more visible every day, and they can never rise above their present dependant [[dependent]] condition until they are taught to attend to their own contracts and accounts, and made to feel personally responsible for their engagements and expenses. I would respectfully suggest that an agent be immediately employed to establish schools for Freedmen in this Sub-District, feeling certain that the work will meet with hearty sympathy and encouragement from the better class of the community, who are fully sensible of the necessity of education for the Freedmen. Two schools in each county, would, in my opinion be the least number necessary for efficient service in the task of education.