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transacted and the papers are kept in good order. The duties of the Bureau at that point are of a general nature, its functions are advisory and restraining and require a watchful and kindly administration. The office in charge seems to possess these qualities in a good degree.

The Schools.
The U.P. Church has had a mission school in Knoxville for about two years. It is now under the care of Rev. R.M. Patterson and forty Asst. teachers. The building in which it is taught, 25 x 80, four rooms, was bought of the Government for $630. The Bureau has expended in repairing the same $419.65. The children in this school are mostly such as have been made the recipients of northern charity in the matter of clothing. It is emphatically a mission school. While this building cannot well accommodate over 300 pupils, I found that there are about 600 colored children in Knoxville of school age.  Recently two other schools have been opened in which I found older and more advanced pupils than those in the school of Mr. Patterson. One of these schools is taught in the basement of the A.M. Church by O.L.C. Hughes and Mrs. H.G. Jones sent by the Garnet League from Harrisburg Pa. and the other by Rev. G. H. LaVerre