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to remedy existing evils as they in their judgement may see proper. 
The freedpeople in this Dist., comprising Trinity Co. and that portion of Polk Co. lying east of Trinity river, are in all probability in more destitute circumstances than any in the State, owing to this fact that since freedom they have not had a good crop season, until the present. The year 1866 and 1867 brot them all out indebted to their employers, and the employers were in fact but little better off, than the poor freedpeople, for two years neither had hardly any money and it has been a hard scuffle to live this year they are doing better, breadstuffs are plenty and some cotton on hand to procure comforts, but the two years of stringency preceeding has left many wants to be supplied, hence they have not felt as yet that they were able to spare any time or money to acquire that, which their untutured minds have never as yet fully comprehended the value of, but still many want to learn. I have done all I could to impress its great importance upon them, but they reply truthfully, "what can we do"? "We have no teachers and no school houses and no money"? Those, who come from the North to this State willing to engage in teaching freedpeople, flock to the cities and poor districts of country like this,