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HEADQUARTERS,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF TEXAS
Galveston, March 22nd, 1866.

E.M.Wheelock
Supt Schools

Sir = I have the honor to report that Miss Lizzie Clay is established in the Mt. Zion church (col) at Houston Texas with a good prospect of raising a large school. Mr Stuart of Houston has been to Fort Bend County with one of his pupils a Freedwoman & started a school there & placed her in charge of the same I am advised. My personal knowledge of this matter consists in seeing him start with her on the Houston Top RR and in returning some week or more afterward without her. The female teachers under him, Miss Watson & Miss Byrne, complain of not being paid punctually. 

Miss E.C. Austin is located on the Terry Plantation Sandy Point. Small day & very large night school in prospect The school house will be completed by the 24th inst & Mr Terry boards her in his own house free of expense. The Fitch sisters are at "Beaumont' but I am informed by Capt. Holsinger that many threats are made against him & also that the prospect of a large school is not very flattering, thinks that there will be no more scholars than one teacher can make profitable.