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Office Sub. Asst. Coms'r
Bureau of R.F and A.L., 
Austin, Texas, October 31st 1868.

To Lieut: Charles A. Vernou
A.A.A. General
Bureau of R.F., and A.L., 
Austin, Texas.

Sir:

Generally hostile but in many cases improving - Planters have been urged to have among their hands one Colored person competent to teach the hands working on their plantation, that the Colored people working there might attend school during the summer and winter months, and the teacher make a hand during the press of work in the Spring and fall, at which seasons there would be no scholars were he to continue teaching - Two or three such schools had a session last summer and I think more will be held as soon as the Cotton and Corn Crops are gathered. In all such cases the schools would be entirely self supporting and beneficial to both planters and field hands. In Georgetown hostility to the school is openly shown -

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