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was paid in tuition during the month. The Bureau paid $18.66/100 in way of rents. Some of this will be discontinued; an inspection having shown the incompetency of teachers. Schools of this Character can not be broken up as they are private; but we refuse to encourage them.
A marked improvement in public sentiment towards schools is manifest. The School Board has expressed a willingness to acquiesce in a plan for relief, by appropriating the tax collected from the colored people for the assessment of 1867-8 to the relief of the Am. Miss. Schools which have been free to all who were unable to pay tuition. The number of pupils taught free has varied from two hundred, and three hundred per month. They are supported by contributions from Northern Churches. The Superintendent (Mr. G. L. Putnam) of Mobile District reports that the Associations disbursements for the maintenance of the teachers and schools in Mobile during the term ending June 30, 1867 have exceeded the receipts by $6139.55/100. The appropriation will probably amount to $1000.00 and was solicited for the Am. Miss. Association, as their schools were the only free schools.
It is estimated that in all the schools of Mobile there are about 900 colored children undergoing instructions.
It is expected that in the coming term the Association will throw its institution open free to all whether able to pay tuition or not; Thus adding great strength to