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In the County, during the past year, seven schools have
been in very successful operation. Two additional ones will
be commenced the present season. Where they have been
properly conducted, the white population have given their

approval. lu some few cases of indiscretion on the paitof
the teachers, there has been some slight dissent. These

schools were held in the '' Churches for Colored People"—
day sessions for children, night sessions fur grown people.

The Baltimore Association for the Moral and Intellectual
Improvement of the Colored People supply the teachers, and
the patrons of the school pay the board for teachers and for
books.

They have erected, to their great credit, an imposing edi-
fice, 25 feet by 40 feet, two stories high, in the town of
Cambridge. They have the material tor another at New
Market, which will be built the present year.

Our Board set aside (see School Law, chap. 1, sec. 1, title
Colored Population,) one hundred and twenty-five dollars

them fifty-five cents, the amount of State school tax paid by
them and appropriated it to the " Jenifer " School House in
Cambridge, it being the only one in course of erection at the
time. The amount of the County school tax for 1864, '5 and
'6, to which they are justly entitled, has never been uscer-
tained as yet, no special disposition has been made of the
claim.

FINANCES.
We have received from the State tax of 1805..... " " County tax of 1864.. " from Free School Fund 1865.. " " " 1866.. " from sale of Books and Sta'ry. " from Teachers tor Certificates., Refunded by Normal School, advertising	.$12,176 83 . 1,283 96 . 3,601 79 . 2,469 06 . l,60y 25 15 00 11 00
Disbursed. .............................	$21,116 86
for salaries to Teachers... .............14,249 59 Incidental Expenses ................ 1,260 31 Books and Stationery............... 2,795 71 Rente of Houses...................... 179 90 Salary of Secretary.. ................ 350 00 Salaries under old law............. 38 63 Office Ex. and Account Books.... 177 05 Blank Registers, Rep. & By-laws 13590 Printing and Advertising. ........ 100 00
Colored People's Tax............... 125 55	—19,412 64
Cash in hand...... ......................	...$1,704 21