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Temporary marriage formerly customary in Scotland. The parties co-habited for a year and a day and might then separate or be finally bound in wedlock; the offspring, if any, was attached to the non-content. IMG:content-0486.png:[graphic] Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. At Hampton, Va.: chartered 1870 for the education of Negroes and Indians, unsectarian. In 1895 it employed 80 instructors and officers, and had 951 students, of whom 138 were Indians. The U. S. Government maintains 120 Indian youths here. Instruc-tree of the natural family Malvaceæ , with large lobed leaves tion is given in the usual English branches of the academic and lower grades, and in agriculture, cooking, carpentry, printing, blacksmithing, and various other trades.