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of man and wife, all of which your Supt has as yet been able to bring about an amicable settlement without resorting to our civil courts.

Your Supt cannot close this report without again referring to the strong desire on the part of the colored people for advantages of education, and the great embarrassment that your Supt meets with in securing buildings suitable for school purposes, especially in Lebanon, with the amount of means at his control"

John L. Fowler Supt Wayne Co reports "Feeling of citizens towards freedmen reasonably kind at this time as far as I can learn"

I would respectfully bring to the notice of the Asst Com'r that the magistrates are yet disposed in some of the counties to make unjust decisions against freedmen, by this I mean that