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The tax under the recent State law providing for that collected from negroes to be appropriated for schools
for their children is being collected, and will soon be available, it is already used in Baltimore.

In Delaware there are twenty one (21) schools under the patronage of the Delaware Association who pay the teachers. The Bureau furnishing the houses. All the schools were closed for the year. Two hundred and forty two (242) rations were issued in May- one
hundred and forty seven (147) to the Orphan Asylum, for the subsistence of children sent there by Major Vanderlip from Anapolis; the balance was issued to persons in transit through the City.  All the counties now provide for the support of the colored paupers.

There are no Bureau Hospitals in the State, and no Medical Officers on duty there. The freedmen are industrious and all employed for may be so. The opposition which are formerly manifested on the eastern shore, to the establishment of colored schools is giving way, and little or no hostility is now shown to them.

The disbursing officer is considerably occupied in the payment of bounties, this with the disbursements for school houses is his principal