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[[left margin]] Public Sentiment [[/left margin]]

changing for the better; no personal violence has been offered to teachers during the quarter, notwithstanding the encouragement offered by a decision of Judge Giles of U.S. Circuit Court, wherein a new trial is refused to a colored female teacher who had been awarded one cent damages by an inferior court for injuries sustained by brutal treatment, of a white man named Galloway, while pursuing her calling at Havre de Grace,

An unfinished building, not furnished by the Bureau, was burned in Delaware.  It was intended for both a church and school, but had not been used for the latter purpose.  To quote the words of Mr. Day, "indifference seems to be the best description of the public feeling, and this we regard as progress".  In two instances in Ceil Co, Mo, the public school money has been returned to the colored people by the County Commissioner and assurances have been given that the colored schools will be taken under the fostering care of the County.  The colored people of Delaware have contributed during the past year (1867) to the cause of education $4,989.26 of which amt, $3.327.84 was for the erection of the school houses furnished by this Bureau the total estimated value of said buildings being $10,233.92.

[[left margin]] Amount of money contributed by cold people of Delaware [[/left margin]]

Mr. Day in concluding his report says "I enter upon another Quarter more full of hope than ever, I have been received everywhere with marked courtesy and I may say with kindness by persons of all classes and I believe that with God's blessing