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paying the teacher's board. One school, supported entirely by freedmen, and taught by a colored girl - was opened on the 21st insh on Arbor Hill, Augusta County, with this exception, there are, at present, no day schools in operation in my Division. In Waynesboro Augusta County, the colored people are streaming to put their Church in a condition that a school may be opened there by the 15th Proximo, in case a teacher and books can be provided. - In fact several schools might be opened in this Division during the coming winter, if it were in the power of the Bureau or some Charitable Association to aid them in procuring suitable schoolrooms and books for use of schools.

As to Intemperance, the colored population seem to be almost entirely free from it. Their failings and evil proclivities seem to develop in another direction, that of choosing mates without performing the proper marriage ceremony. etc. etc.

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