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per scholar, made in each school upon those who consider themselves able to pay it, and which when collected is to be used for contingent expenses, is paid by, but very few and its non payment in no case works exclusion.  There are four Sabbath Schools in this place for Freedmen and the number of children attending is about three hundred.  They have here, too, three churches, the Methodist, the Baptist and the Presbyterian.  The Freedmen are for the most part deeply in earnest as to educating themselves and their children, and are by no means as a class vagrant but sober, industrious, and thrifty.  It is in this place that I have found the wealthiest colored man, I have met [[strikethrough]] ever [[/strikethrough]] since I came into the state.  I refer to Mr Wm Valentine whose residence is worth between three and five thousand dollars