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American Missionary Association for our joint employment of an experienced and trustworthy builder to control our joint expenditures.

Now with regard to teachers' salaries, after the summer vacation.

I beg your attention first to the remarkable increase of attendance at our Schools. From 2377 on the 1st of November last, there has been a progressive increase to 8812 on the 1st of June, and we are earnest in our expectation that the aggregate will reach 10,000 by the 1st of July. And this is almost altogether Bureau work.

With the decline of the war spirit out of which the educational associations sprung, and the increasing prospect of enlisting the political power of the Southern States in the work of