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whose pardon or amnesty oath's date prior to the date of existing leases, = have persuaded the leesees to hold back payment until they can have their property restored, when they expect to have the rent relinquished in their favor and collect the same themselves. The fact that the 2nd payment on nearly all the leases, falls due on the 1st of next month, may have prevented those who have not paid any, from making payment, until after that date, when they may pay all. My opinion is however that an Officer of some kind will have to visit nearly every leesee in person before the rents now due will be paid.

(The Freedmens School buildings are now comfortable and the schools are progressing finely."

James Ware Supt. Bradley Polk and McMinn Counties reports: "The citizens generally I think are becoming more friendly toward the Bureau and the Freedmen. The prospect of the Colored man, receiving the benefit of the elective franchise, is the reason for their treating them better, Men who last winter - when I first received my appointment = threatened to burn my Office and clean out the "Shebang" = as they expressed it = are now its friends.