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While country places in some instances will be supplied with colored teachers from our estate listed schools. The closing examinations during the past month of the schools under the charge of both white and colored, have proven very satisfactory, and showing rapid advancement of the pupils in all the primary branches of the education. The classes in advanced Readers, Geography, Arithmetic and Grammar, gave evidence of being thoroughly instructed as far as they have gone, while the writing classes did well. 
The Temperance Associations are increasing in numbers, and are exerting a good influence among the freed-people. Two new Divisions were organized during the past month.
A number of cases of family troubles have been satisfactorily adjusted, and difficulties between white and colored have been settled without recourse to the civil authorities.
The laws regulating the marriage relation, I believe, have very generally been observed, although it will take a long time before they are fully compiled with. Cases of prostitution are not so numerous.

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