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to be made will specify to whom I herein refer. Many of this class frankly concede that their appointments were made by the late Board of Ed. for Pr. more in consideration of poverty, misfortune, or family dependencies than of any merit of having the efficient qualifications.

Locality.
For a plainer exhibit of the respective localities of the schools and proposed school sites, I respectfully refer to the diagram accompanying the tabular statement of each Parish.

School Buildings,
In a few instances I find the school buildings so poor that considerations of economy would preclude attempts to repair them, and of health, any attempts to keep school therein during the coming winter. That upon Mason's Plantation is an eminent example of this class, its walls being merely of rough cypress slits upright in the ground.

Status of School Buildings.
I find that the greater part of our tenures - both upon confiscated plantations are others, - are the results of peremptory seizure by the Provost Marshal - in many cases against the protest of the owner or Government lessee. I fail to discover a half dozen written leases in my whole Division, but there seems