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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, STATE OF GEORGIA,
Savannah, Ga. Jan. 18th 1807.

Bvt. Maj Gen. D. Tillson.
Commanding District of Ga.

Sir: I regret that an almost uninterrupted continuance of the annoyance, by white boys, of the teacher and pupils of the Freedmen's School in Campbell's church compels me again to call upon the Mayor of the city to put a stop to it.

The pupils are almost every day stoned, and some of them beaten; and not infrequently stones are thrown into the schoolroom; and I am well assured that in no instance has any provocation been given for such rudeness.    

That such conduct should be of daily occurrence, is more disgraceful to their parents than to the boys who indulge in it; and