Viewing page 157 of 265

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

eight (68). It is in charge of H.E. Keys a colored man who should still be a scholar instead of a teacher- as there are no advanced pupils and he is a good disciplinarian his school is doing very well.
The school at Front Royal is also in charge of a colored man named B.H. Roberts and numbers seventy six (76). This school is more advanced than the last mentioned, but the teacher is no better, and but little can be expected until a more competent man can be obtained.
At Bentonville, the school numbering seventeen (17) is in charge of John Crawford (white) In his last report this teacher spells the word "No" in two places "know" and "unkwnown" "unown". The schools therefore can do but little good in this division unless men better qualified for the work are procured for teachers.

Third Division Comprising the  Counties Shenandoah and Rockingham.
1st: The General Condition of the freed people in this division is perhaps better than in either of the other divisions in this Sub District, owing it is supposed to the comparatively few therein and the demand for labour. All are