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Signed
James D Scarlett Teacher.

1. Amount of Tuition paid during the month, $ 10 25 cents

2. Remarks. My School is reduced in members from several causes 1st the Freedmen are easily acted and addicted to change schools for the most tussling cause, & there are two other schools in operation in this city & Quite a number of the adult Scholars are now cultivating their crop of Corn & cotton near the City
3 I contemplate adopting the plan in successful operation in the Canadas viz Of lowering the price of Tuition but not in full (and admit a number of poor Scholars free) As the Sabbath School lately organized showes clearly that a number of Widows and Crippled persons are not educating their Families in consequence of Poverty I offer this as an effort to invite them and If possible to counteract the Evil 
For Sabbath School We require quite a supply of R Readers and large Cards with Alphabet and easy lessons to hang up and Teach them on the Lancastrarian System, resembling the Blackboard instruction
4th we have not half enough of primary books for S.S. now and have no doubt the number will double itself and having a good supply of Efficient S.S. Teacher er have only nine Bibles in the School & for Bible Class is entirely too limited for the number of Adults who can read
5th The School is steadily progressing in the various studies especially in Reading and writing. This month 7 Scholars entered on the 9th and 10th Inst Commenced in Alphabet and are now reading in easy lessons one of whom is commenced