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measure to the bad conduct of the late teacher at Kaufman.

The school at Dallas, is doing passably well, under Miss Davlin The Citizens generally are friendly to it, & a suitable building is the most important requisite to make the school efficient. The present building is about a half mile out of town - propped up to keep it from tumbling down. I effected a temporary arrangement with A Scott, for the removal of the school on the first of May- I got a Mr. Jones, County Clerk, interested in the matter, who pledged me that a lot should be secured in a few weeks on which to build a house. An appropriation of two hundred dollars to build at Dallas, would put the educational interest on a good basis at that point. Not over sixty, at the most seventy, children could be gathered together, so the house need not be large. The rent paid, & claimed, for the  present house would have both a lot & put up a good building.

At McKinney, the Freedmen have secured a lot - & commenced to build. The disorganized condition of society