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Head Quarters District of Alabama
Office Superintendent of Education
Montgomery Ala. October 1st 67

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
Major Genl Wager Swayne
Assistant Commissioner
State of Alabama

General
I have the honor to submit herewith the second annual Report of Superintendent of Education of the condition and progress of colored schools of Alabama for the year ending this day.  In the department of Education the present has been a year of progress. It opened with sixty-eight teachers laboring among the freedmen, and three thousand, two hundred and twenty pupils under instruction; it closed with one-hundred and fifty teachers imparting instruction to nine-thousand, seven-hundred and ninety-nine pupils.
Attainments in scholarship are indicated in the following figures; the last report showed three hundred and ninety-eight in Geography, eight hundred in arithmetic, nine hundred and ninety four in writing, and seventy-seven in higher branches. This year closes with seventeen-hundred and eighty two in Geography, two thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight in arithmetic, three thousand, four hundred and forty-seven in writing, and eight hundred and thirteen in higher-branches.