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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