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to be no end of claims for rent based on the alleged verbal promise of some agent to the Board of Education for Freedmen, for the occupation of some "cornhouse", Hospital Building or other tenement at the Servants' quarters, for school purposes.  Hence the distinctions of "nominal" and "actual", employed in the tabular statements.

Estimate of the School property required.
I also have the honor to submit herewith an estimate of the amount of the respective species of school property requisite for the year commencing tomorrow, Oct. 1st.  Owing to the impossibility of foreseeing the precise time or number of pupils in the organization of the new schools, my estimate of the proper increment in the respective quotas of my Parishes for the second and third quarters of the year, can, of course, be only approximately correct.  I respectfully tender my acknowledgements of therein having availed myself of the experience and excellent judgement of Mr. Jas Re Ford, your shipping clerk, no less than of his courtesy in permitting me to ascertain from his Register the amount of books required and shipped to my Parishes by the Board of Ed. for Freedmen during the last quarter of the present year.  The division into four parts according to my present number of Directors, and the quarter-yearly subdivision is made for convenience of Invoice.