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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION,
For the State of Mississippi,
Vicksburg, Miss., March 27, 1866.
Wm. M. Colby Esq.,
State Supt. of Education, Ark.
Dear Sir_ We have printed nothing about our Schools since I took charge in Mississippi under my present appointment.
We have about 5.450 pupils in schools that have been reported to me in one fashion and another; though about 1000 of these do not get reported in my Form of Monthly Report.
As a general thing the progress of these scholars is good. 
Every teacher that has been offered to me is employed well. Though we have found it impossible, in many towns, to get accommodations, yet we have, on the whole, got enough to employ all the teachers we could get.
I think this is about all I can state now.

Yours truly,
Joseph Warren,
State Supt. of Education.