| The total cost of Public Schools for the year 1889-90 was | $1,604,508.80 |
| The cost of Negro Schools for the same year was about | 420,000.00 |
Now, if we use the percentages on preceding pages and allow all the taxes paid by Negroes (on both personal and real property) to go into the School Fund, we will see that there was a deficit of $256,824.33 to be made up from the taxes paid by white people, or, in other words, the total amount of taxes on personal and real property paid by the Negroes will cover less than half the expense of their schools alone.
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