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Office Sub Ass' Comm BRF and AL
Wharton Texas
Dec 31 1868

To the
Rev. Mr Joseph Welch
Superintendent of Education
Austin Texas

Sir
As the operations of the Bureau have now come to a termination, I would respectfully submit to you, the following brief survey of the Educational condition and prospects of my sub District.
Although thickly settled with freed people and with a large number of children who might and should attend schools; my sub district has never been able to sustain more than one. All the efforts I have made to call more schools into existence and induce the colored people to sustain there, have in

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