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Galveston Oct. 31st/65

Genl:
I have the honor to submit the following school report, in compliance with circular No 10: 3d Par, of the Bureau of Reffugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, dated Washington July 11/65:
   On the 17th of last Aug. I learned that nothing had been done for the education of the Freedmen of Texas. And on the 14th I set out from New Orleans for the purpose of pioneering the work. On the 4th of last month I opened the first colored school ever known in Texas in the African Baptist Church of this City.  The first morning, seventy eight children and youth, ranging in their ages from five to twenty years entered the school with the understanding that each was to pay a tuition of one dollar and fifty cents per month.  On the evening of the same day, eighty seven adults, ranging in their ages from 17 to 60 years entered as pupils.
   I found among my day and night-scholars some who were sufficiently advanced to teach those who had yet to learn the alphabet. And on the 6th of Sept. I procured, and opened a school in, the