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All the places mentioned in yours of the 28th inst are owned by Boards of Trustees of Col'd men. Most of them are churches. You are likely to find on your books a charge against Royal Oak as the Government supplied part of the lumber and all of the desks for that place.
The postoffice address of our teachers is the same as the names of the schools except, Millersville, the postoffice for which is Waterbury, A.A. Co.; Skull Town, which is Carrollton, Balt'o Co. and Fountain Church, which is Chestertown, Kent Co. care Wm. Perkins
The schools under our Association for Nov'r., will cost the Bureau, - there being 45 teachers - $450. & Nor. Sch'l, I dont know how much, that will be settled today by our Com. appointed to wait on Gen'l. Howard. Contributing Societies $600. Freedmen $1125.00. Total $2175.00 exclusive of Nor. Sch'l. The county school boards do not give anything worth counting. If the total amount paid by them were distributed equally to all the schools in the State it would not reach more than $1.00 per mo. for the school year. The amount credited the Freedmen includes the $10. tax, board of teacher, washing, lights & fuel, and is taken at $25. for each teacher. This you can take as the amount for each month according to number of teachers so far as the freedmen are concerned.
I was quite surprised this morning when making a list of all our teachers for October, - as a memo. for our Com. appointed to visit Washington, to find that the clerk I had employed to assist me - being myself greatly hurried - had made such a mistake as to include some of the teachers who only commenced in Nov. The correct no. I find is 31, and not 38 as he made it to appear. The list you can get from the Com. I presume you have reports for that number.