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a good effect, their progress have been slow but they have made some progress has been slow but they have made some progress so that many are able to read understandingly - Their place of instruction was adopted in 1866, they get together straight for instruction, but the white assaulted their house with missiles, broke in their windows and doors and broke up their schools, and not until they were threatened with being arrested and sent to Hd Qrs to Galveston would the white desist, and now were it not for the fear of the Bureau authority the freedpeople would not be allowed to hold meetings without being disturbed.

The best assistance the freedpeople would would have in this place, would be to furnish a Teacher, they could raise something for the support of a teacher and probably after a time would be able to support a teacher wholly of themselves.

Very Resp &c
(Signed) John Dix
S.a.C.

No Day School - about 60 scholars attend Sunday school at Corpus Christi