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and efficient, colored men, many of them formerly slaves, who are exerting a salutary influence upon the people, publicly and privately, in their sermons, their public addresses, and their private counsels. prominent among them are the Revs. James H. Hood, Wm J Moore, Alexander Bass, Joseph A Bebee, Wm Williams, and Messrs J. H. Harris, Richard Tucker, A H Galloway, James E. O'Hara, A. B. Sawyer, Harmon Vonthank and Mathew Larry, not to mention other whose names now crowd my memory*. 

I can not close this report without a few words, in regard to ["Brewer Asylum and the schools for Poor Whites. All things about the Asylum are [*is in good condition] 
The offices connected therewith deserve special commendation. [Since it was founded June 1866, one hundred and fifty orphans and destitute children have been cared for therein. There are fifty five now there. Forty two of this number are under fourteen years of age.] Many of the children of the of the Asylum are intelligent and bright. Their teacher, Miss Annie Kidder, is an excellent one; and the children are doing well. The building needs some repairs. It is to be hoped that they will be made very soon

To much can not be said in praise of the

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