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Brunswick Ga Dec. 22nd, 1866
G. L. Eberhart Esq.

Sir

Enclosed please find the school report for the month which closes up the year, and I beg that you will do justice for me for the service: Which I have rendered the colored or freed people of this place during the last four months for I assure you that I have labored hard to advance them and have had the strongest kind of opposition from the Whites of the place as well as some little from the colored people as many of them was of the opinion that the freed people was not required to pay anything for their schooling for they believed that the Gov't or Bureau employed the teacher and payed his or her entire salary, but I have succeeding in convincing many of those that such is not the case and that each one is expected and required to pay some thing and when they, show a disposition to help themselves to Gov't or Bureau will assist them and not untill then.