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attendance of from thirty to one hundred & thirty pupils.

The bulk of population in the County is on the Colorado bottoms. After a careful investigation, I am satisfied that schools permanently established, at Osage, Harrington's & Crisp Plantations, Columbus, Alleyton;- Carlton's, Neusem's, Tait's, Wilkinson's Andersen's & the Jone's Plantations, with one at Content & Prairie Point, on the Navedad & perhaps, one on Skull Creek & another at Fralesburg, will meet the entire wants of the County, for years to come.

Commencing at Osage, at the Northern boundary of the County, & west side of the River, thence crossing to Harringtons on the East side, & thus continuing on from point to point, as above enumerated, alternating from side to side, would accommodate the people on both banks of the Colorado, giving them a school, at a distance of about four to five miles apart.

At Osage, Dr. Adkins, has promised to give land for a school house & Church. Dr. Crisp also has agreed to give four or five acres, & I was about contracting with him to build a house 20x20 - suitable for a church & school. Mr. Carlton and Dr. Tait, have both kindly offered to deed the Freedmen, ground, necessary for church & school purposes. Col. Wilkinson, intends to build a house for them, at his own expense, sufficiently