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Property

held by colored people in Knoxville

Property paid for: 39 houses x lots @350 ... $13650 00/100
Property in part paid for, 14 houses x lots @250 ... $3500 00/100.

In Eastport, a suburb of Knoxville, are 20 colored families owning houses and lots worth on an average $300. $6000.- 
About half of these are paid for and something is paid on nearly all the other half.

Total valuation of such property.
Churches ... $3500.00/100.
Houses and lots ... $23150.00/100
Total: 266650 -

The Poor of Knoxville

A society called, The East Tennessee Relief Association has existed in Knoxville furnished with funds from a foreign source for aiding the poor, both black and white. But the funds of this society are now exhausted and the care of the poor is left to the County Court which refuses to make appropriations to this object, because it must rebuild the bridges swept off by the flood! It has provided for one blind colored man and a few white paupers when it could not avoid the responsibility. Capt. Walker issues rations to black and white - more the latter than the former - at the rate of 990 per month. His rule is to issue, not statedly, but only to an extent which it relieves those