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and all who are disposed to work, are employed at reasonable wages.

6th  As in the other divisions of the Sub District, the schools are now closed. The interest of the freed people in them is unabated, and proportionate to their circumstances. Mount Crawford and Mount Sidney in Augusta County, and Monterey in Highland County are favorable locations for the establishment of schools, but little or no assistance could be expected from the inhabitants towards their support.

On the tour of Inspection, reports of the freedpeople are everywhere encouraging. They are generally sober, industrious and peacable. They are strictly observant of the law; have a firm and abiding interest in religion and education, show a commendable spirit, and an intelligent appreciation on all public questions which are calculated to affect their prosperity as a race, and are surely and steadily progressing to that scale of manhood which will command for them equality before the law, and 

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