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[[left margin]] Education X [[/left margin]]
 
During the greater part of the Quarter the principal Schools in the Sub District have been enjoying a vacation, and the number of Scholars reported has therefore been comparatively small being made up of the Pupils of several private Schools in various localities and a number of Schools temporarily opened by the N.Y. Soc. of Friends.  The interest of the Freedmen in the Cause of Education, however, has by no means diminished but with the approach of the Fall Sessions of the Schools is every where reviving.  The disposition to support Schools at their own expense has given rise to quite a number of private Schools  Several of them large and flourishing.

As the diminished resources of the various charitable Societies of the North necessitates a considerable curtailment of their Schools and as there is little prospect of a general free School System in the State for some time to come it is believed that the Bureau should do everything in its power to encourage this movement amongst the Freedmen towards private pay Schools.  The only objection to such Schools is that in some cases the Teachers employed are but poorly fitted for the work of teaching.

It is earnestly hoped that the Bureau at no distant day will be able to supply Teachers at least to a limited extent as well as to rent repair and construct School buildings 

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