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teachers at cost prices, as directed by "the Philadelphia Friends Freedmen's Associations," the patron of the School.  The teachers report that the books are always promptly paid for.
   Mrs S.K. Dorland, also teaches a day school in another part of this city, which  enrolls seventy three scholars, with an average daily attendance of forty four.  In this school, there are several adults.  Mrs Dorland teaches no regular night school, but has what she calls a night class of five adult persons, who are instructed by her every evening at her house.
   The building in which this school is taught, is a very poor one in every respect, ill adapted to school purposes, being a small frame dwelling house with two small rooms.  Its location, too, is very bad.  It is too much to one side and out of the way of the colored people.