hools in 1850, census gave 10,560, which number has since
been increased by the establishment of Catholic parochial
schools, estimated in 1856, 17,560.

b. The proportion of colored children attending private
schools to white children attending same, is as 1 to 140.

c. But the average attendance of colored children in all
schools is about the same as that of the white in proportion,
that is to say, as many colored children attend the
public schools as do whites attend both public and private
schools, in proportion to the whole number of each class
of children.

Locality, capability, etc., of colored schools.

1. The Board of Education, since its organization, has
expended in sites and buildings for white schools $1,600,000.

b. The Board of Education has expended for sites and
buildings for colored schools (addition to building leased
19 Thomas), $1,000.

c. The two schoolhouses in possession of the Board
now used for colored children were assigned to same by
the Old Public School Society.

2. The proportion of colored children to white children
attending public schools is as 1 to 40.

a. The sum expended on school buildings and sites of
colored and white schools by the Board of Education is as
1 to 1,600.

3. a. Schoolhouse No. 1, for colored children, is an old
building, erected in 1820 by the New York Manumission Society
as a school for colored children, in Mulberry street, in a poor
but decent locality. It has two departments, one male and one
female; it consists of two stories only, and has two small
recitation rooms on each floor, but as primary as well as grammar
children attend each department, much difficulty and confusion
arises from the want of class room for the respective studies.
The building covers only part of the lot, and as it is, the best
attended and among the best taught of the colored schools, a
new and ample school building, erected in this place, would
prove a great attraction, and could be amply filled by children.

b. Schoolhouse No. 2, erected in Laurens street more
than twenty years ago for colored children by the Public
School Society, is in one of the lowest and filthiest
neighborhoods, and hence, although it has competent teachers
in the male and female departments, and a separate primary
department, the attendance h