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dollars.- $4,500.00
There have been in addition to the above, special - 
appropriations made for purchase and repairs of school -
buildings as follows:-
For repairs of school buildings at Aberdeen $115.00
For repairs of school buildings at Meridian $1,000.00
For purchase of school buildings at Port Gibson $1,000.00
Making a total (including rents) of about  $6,615.00 

The freedmen have paid in tuition, donations for repairs and purchase of buildings, from reports on file in this office, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars ($1,950.00) This comparatively small amount paid by the freedmen towards defraying the expenses of conducting their schools has been owing to the same cause which has borne so heavily on all their other interests, viz:- the failure of the crops.- The freedmen in many localities where schools have been established received nothing but a bare subsistence for their last year's labor; yet notwithstanding these difficulties