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There has been but one school report sent in, & that was only a plantation school, schools having been suspended in all parts of the district for want of adiquate means to sustain them

There has been considerable political excitement throughout the whole District. This I have endeavored to allay by intimating in every direction that the probability is that there would be no election in this State this fall.

I have only two murders to report for this month; that of Jerry Clark (colored) in Sumter Co. & that of Henry Pierce (colored), on Pierces plantation in Green Co, about three miles form Bluff port. The murderer in this last case is at large, at the house of his uncle three miles this side of Lauderdale Springs in Mississippi. His name is Zacheriah Williams. As there is a Bureau Agent at Lauderdale Springs he could be arrested if you should so order it. He has but one eye, & his uncle is known as Judge Williams

R A Wilson
Agt & Sub Assistant Commissioner