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Office Sub Asst Comr B.R.F. & A.L. Sterling Robertson Co, Texas. October 25th, 1866 Mr E M Wheelock, Supt of Schools, Galvaston [[Galveston]]. Texas Sir I have just returned from a tour through this Sub District and in conversing with the Planters, and Freedmen, I learned that at one place the Freedmen have built a School House. but up to this time have not been able to get a suitable Teacher, There was an old man teaching. he charged them one Dollar and fifty cents per Month, for each puple [[pupil]] he claimed to be a preacher I found him dead drunk at Port Sullivan, and from the Statements of the Freedmen and Planters I fret that he was a perfect imposter and ordered him not to Teach or Preach in this Dist. The Freedmen have requested me to assist them in procuring a Teacher. The School will open with about fifty Puples [[pupils]] and the Freedmen are