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164 districts of Bhaugalpoor and contain each three vernacular two, and three hundred and the police divisions, and adjoins the Monghyr, where Hindi prevails.

There are eight villages that contain each three vernacular schools, fifteen that contain each two, and three hundred and fifty-eight containing each one.

The number of teachers is 412, of whom one is a Christian, four are Musalmans, and the remainder are Hindus. The average age of all the teachers is 38.3 years. The following list exhibits the castes of the Hindu teachers and the number of each:—

The Kalu, Sunri, Dhoba, Mala, and Chandal, castes are of those that were generally deemed to be excluded from the benefits of instruction in letters; but the above enumeration shows that some individuals of those castes have even become instructors of others. The Christian teacher mentioned above is employed in teaching a Missionary school.

There are not fewer than eleven teachers who instruct their scholars gratuitously, and of these there are not less than four in one thana, that of Sakalyapur. The scholars of one are poor, and he is contented to teach them without pay, receiving his subsistence from the other members of his family. Another is the head-man of the village, and from motives of benevolence or piety he instructs the children who please to attend him. A third is a respectable inhabitant of the village in which he resides, who employs his declining age in the gratuitous instruction of the young, having a farm by which he supports himself and family. Five other support themselves and families by farming, of whom one is a paralytic. The paid teachers are remunerated as follows:—