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duties to attend to, during the hours of school.
The agregate [[aggregate]] number of pupils in the four schools is one hundred and ninety (190) of whom one hundred and thirty one (131) attend that aided by the Bureau.
Efforts have been made to organize a school at Newtown, but the people are too destitute to maintain it, and it closed for want of patronage.
If teachers were furnished, schools could be established at Newtown and Middletown, with an average number of fifty (50) pupils to each.

Second Division, comprising the Counties of Clarke, Warren and Page.

1: The General Condition of the freedpeople is slowly but steadily improving. Low wages, natural prejudices, and the almost general impositions on their ignorance are causes which operate most unfavorably against their rapid advancement. Very few contracts have been made for the present year, but the people are generally employed at all average of nine dollars ($9.00) per month, and the usual allowances.
2: The likelihood of freedpeople getting full and complete justice in cases when they are