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[[left margin]] Labor [[/left margin]]

It would be difficult to devise a law which would not be liable to abuse, and which would at the same time remedy the evils existing in consequence of as many of the laboring class remaining in the city in idleness. They live on the earnings of the industrious and keep them poor. When urged to go to the interior they plead the insecurity of wages and hold that they had better remain idle in the city than work hard on the plantations of all the year and receive no pay. The disappointments of last year crowded the city with a wretched class. I see no remedy except by the general adoption by employers, of a system of prompt weekly or monthly payments. The system of settlements at the end of the season, which was at first deemed advantageous, is really the worst thing that could have been devised. It was designed to protect the planter, but has worked his ruin by inducing idleness and general distrust. Until it is abandoned, and competition in labor by full and frequent payments, no decrease of present destitution and crime can be looked for.

[[left margin]] Schools [[/left margin]]

Education.
Educational Reports show a slight decrease of the number of pupils, always manifest during the summer as the term approaches its close. There are (11) eleven schools of (29) twenty nine teachers and seven hundred and thirty six (736) pupils reported for April. Few of the teachers and colored, and excepting two are incompetent. $335.50/100 (over)

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Labor and Schools on left margin are underlined Education is also underlined