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for the Bureau if it has the power to make provision for them, they could be sent to the Poor house, but they are not inclined to go there, they are also opposed to having their children bound out, were there persons willing to take them, which is not the case owing to the difficulties of education the country being so thinly settled as not to afford a sufficient number of scholars for schools in the remote districts of the county.

J.K. Nelson Supt Rutherford Co reports Oct 31, "I have not occupied my present position long enough to be able to give a very intelligent opinion as to the feeling of the people generally toward the freedmen and the Bureau, but are fully convinced that it is not favorable.

In a case of unprovoked and brutal assault made by a white man of this place on the person of a colored