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Balance from April  809.57
From sales to Bureau 646.02
$1455.59

Cash for material  243.43
Cash for making garments  107.25
On Hand May 1st 1868.  1104.91
$1455.59

That this school has been of advantage to many of the colored females is very evident to me, enabling as it has many of them to become proficient seamstresses and opening up to them other means of livelihood than heretofore enjoyed.

The Education of the freedpeople is steadily pursued, though there are many yet who evince but little desire to obtain it, the schools will close soon, many of them are losing scholars already as the larger boys are withdrawn to labor in the fields, and thus assist their parents in making a livelihood.

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| Divisions | First | Second | Third | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Schools | 17 | 7 | 12 | 36 |
| Teachers | 22 | 7 | 12 | 41 |
| Scholars | 821 | 245 | 357 | 1423 |

Many of the scholars have become very proficient and will eventually become good and reliable citizens.

But few cases of injustice have been complained of to me, most of which have been amicably settled, and the state offering between the races is much improved excepting in Fauquier County