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received from friends of the teachers and the teachers have furnished the rest.

90 Articles have been made or repaired and distributed

Sales amounting to 2 dollars & 50 cents have been made.

12 young women have found service & homes in the city

10 not connected with the school have been aided.  

Permit me to repeat what has more than once been said in former reports.  The Industrial School under my charge is a School for Instruction - not a House of Employment.  Its purpose has been &, now is, to help the freedmen to help themselves.  They are required to do well whatever they undertake.  Quality - not quantity of work regulates its value & decides its place.

No money is paid for work.  Instruction is gratuitous, and material is supplied by the teachers without charge.  The men are taught to cut & make all kinds of garments, and are paid in clothing or food at the rate of forty cents per day for their work.  No work is taken home.

All are encouraged to seek more remunerative

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