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on shares for their own personal benefit, under their own superintendence and who were entirely dependent on them for subsistence, while this year planters work only a limited number of laborers themselves renting portions of their plantations to freedmen independent of their control.-

As the freedmen have in this manner a direct interest in the soil it is thought that the share system will be more remunerative this than in former years

Considering the poverty of the people and the little aid which the freedmen can afford in its support, the Educational Department presents very flattering results for the quarter last past.- Seventy Eight (78) schools have been in operation during the quarter.- Of this number thirty (30) have been conducted under the auspices of the various educational and benevolent associations of the North. The number of teachers employed by these associations is fifty five (55), the number employed by the freedmen