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accept enough for a living; hence the land remains untilled, and the idle freedmen suffer when winter comes.

The schools in this Sub-District have been productive of much good, during the past season, although the average attendance has been less than last season. The best conducted school is that kept by Mr and Mrs Burbank of Lawrenceville. Of course there are vacant places, where scores of schools can be established with the prospect of much good to the Freedmen; but the diminished revenue of the Northern Societies, heretofore fostering the schools of the South, make it improbable that there will be any increase during the next year.

The authorities of this city will, I think, immediately inaugurate a system of free schools, for white and black; the Common Council have favorably received the report of a committee appointed by them to mature a plan. Said Committee recommend an expenditure for the year, of $10,000 00/100 for schools, and state that they have the 

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