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have fifty dollars per month salary from this fund - the act requiring that all without distinction of race or color should receive the benefit of the fund.

The Missionary Association has fixed the pay of its teachers at fifteen dollars per month, allowing them also twenty dollars per mo for Board and paying for return transportation and expenses. Gen'l Gile paid the teachers from this fund forty dollars per month last season. I have therefore fixed the pay of these teachers of freedmen at $40.00 per month, and if they go north during the summer they are to pay their own expenses.

The pupils in the Freedmens schools are nominally required to pay twenty five cents per month to be appropriated for the purchase of School Books at New York wholesale cost prices, and for fuel, and removing desks and benches. If fuel is hauled for the Schools the usual price is allowed to those who haul it. the houses in which the teachers reside and the Schools are taught, except at Hilton Head, and "Pine Grove" and the "Tom B Chaplin place" are owned by the Government ("Edgerly" should also be mentioned as not belonging to the United States) The "Praise house" so called is used by Mrs Vaughan for her school