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Galveston Texas Oct 31st 1865
Genl
   I have the honor to submit the following school report in compliance with circular No 10 3rd Par of the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands dated Washington July 11th 1867 
   On the 17th of last August I learned that nothing had been done for the education of the Freedmen of Texas - and on the 24th 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 age 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 African Methodist Church. up to this date we have had a good day school in this building taught by one Mrs Wren (colored) A night school was also opened in the same building on the evening of the 6th taught at first by a colored man, but